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Nonprofit Helps Blind South Sudanese See Again
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A U.S.-based nonprofit is helping hundreds of blind South Sudanese see again by hiring a local doctor to perform surgeries on patients in the Jonglei State capital, Bor.
Sixty-year-old Mary Ayak Thie lost her vision…
Burkinabe Inventor Turns Harmful Plants Into Clean Energy
UNITED NATIONS ENVIRONMENT PROGRAM
On the outskirts of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, Mariama Mamane sat in the dust tinkering with a blue generator. The 29-year-old environmental engineer attached a large blue square bag containing biogas…
Women Pool Savings to Invest in Cattle
For the women of a self-help group in Tuluroba, Kenya, the goal was simple: Use their combined savings to buy cattle, fatten them and sell them to the beef industry.
But there was a problem. “We had no land to graze the cattle. Nor could…
Ethiopia Allows Refugees to Work
Ethiopia has passed a law giving almost 1 million refugees the right to work and live outside of camps, in a move praised for providing them with more dignity and reducing reliance on foreign aid.
Home to Africa’s second-largest refugee…
Roving Cinema plays in Central Africa
AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
A giant screen flickers to life in a remote village in the equatorial forest of the Central African Republic. About 200 villagers take in an evening of films, thanks to a traveling cinema team that aims to entertain…
Uganda is World’s Most Active Nation
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A report on physical inactivity across the globe found that Uganda is the world’s most active nation.
The study, published in the medical journal The Lancet, is a compilation of surveys done in 168…