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Nelson Mandela's granddaughter, Zoleka Mandela, passed away from cancer, her family announced on Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2023. Here, she is seen speaking at a meeting on non-communicable diseases at United Nations headquarters in New York on Sept. 27, 2018. Photo credit:

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Zoleka Mandela, Nelson Mandela’s granddaughter, dies of cancer at 43

September 26, 2023
By CBS Chicago

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A worker walks next to a pile of sacks of food earmarked for the Tigray and Afar regions in a warehouse of the World Food Programme (WFP) in Semera, the regional capital for the Afar region, in Ethiopia Monday, Feb. 21, 2022. Photo credit: The Associated Press

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Starving children fed grass, clinics running out of painkillers: Aid to Africa shrinks as need soars

September 25, 2023
By Nicholas Bariyo
The Wall Street Journal

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Nigeria's President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, center first row, poses for a group photo with other West African leaders before an ECOWAS meeting in Abuja, Nigeria. Thursday, Aug. 10, 2023. West African heads of state began meeting Thursday on next steps after Niger's military junta defied their deadline to reinstate the nation's deposed president, but analysts say the bloc known as ECOWAS may be running out of options as support fades for a military intervention. Photo credit: Gbemiga Olamikan, The Associated Press

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African leaders warily eye their generals after coups surge

September 12, 2023
By Nicholas Bariyo
The Wall Street Journal

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The statehouse in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Photo credit: The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative

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Despite outcry, Liberia extradites former Sierra Leone official for alleged coup attempt

September 5, 2023
By Trokon Wrepue
NABJ Black News & Views

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urvivors and onlookers gather at the scene of one of South Africa's deadliest inner-city fires in Johannesburg, South Africa, Friday, Sept. 1, 2023. Emergency services teams have left the scene of one of South Africa's deadliest inner-city fires as pathologists faced the grisly task Friday of identifying dozens of charred bodies and some separate body parts that had been transported to several mortuaries across the city of Johannesburg. Photo credit: Jerome Delay, The Associated Press

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A father’s desperate 5-story jump to save his children from Johannesburg blaze

September 5, 2023
By The Wall Street Journal
NABJ Black News & Views

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Fire in Johannesburg leaves at least 73 dead, authorities say

August 31, 2023
By Gerald Imray & Mogomotsi Magome
The Associated Press

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