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BBC NEWS AT BBC.CO.UK/NEWS Fifteen-year-old Divina Maloum of Cameroon has won a children’s international peace prize for her work with…

VOICE OF AMERICA At a time when bad news seems inescapable, the aid group Save the Children has some good…

BBC NEWS AT BBC.CO.UK/NEWS An invention by a South African engineer that dispenses pills has won a major engineering prize.…

VOICE OF AMERICA Kenya is facing one of the worst stretches of drought in years, causing underdevelopment, fights over water…

VOICE OF AMERICA South Sudan is celebrating a technological advance with the launch of a nationwide system for mobile money…

AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Sudan and Ethiopia have signed an agreement to deploy joint forces along their border to prevent weapons smuggling…

VOICE OF AMERICA A U.S.-based nonprofit is helping hundreds of blind South Sudanese see again by hiring a local doctor…

UNITED NATIONS ENVIRONMENT PROGRAM On the outskirts of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, Mariama Mamane sat in the dust tinkering with a…

For the women of a self-help group in Tuluroba, Kenya, the goal was simple: Use their combined savings to buy…

Ethiopia has passed a law giving almost 1 million refugees the right to work and live outside of camps, in…