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On the dusty floor of his tiny pharmacy, Vincent Anibueze was waiting to die. Outside, gunshots came like bursts of static from an untuned radio. He heard screams and heavy [...]

Enos Mafokate, a South African horseman, overcame the challenges of apartheid to become one of the country's first Black professional show jumpers. His career spanned the final two decades of apartheid, and his success in a predominantly white sport had a symbolic impact. In 2007, Mafokate founded the Soweto Equestrian Center, the first riding school in Soweto, a township with limited public spaces for leisure. Mafokate's teaching style is direct, and he rarely turns away students who cannot afford lessons. His goal is to open up the world of riding to those who would not otherwise have the opportunity to participate. [Extracted from the article]

AT FIRST, they asked nicely. At the end of 2016, as Congolese president Joseph Kabila's second full term came to an end, leaders from the country's powerful Roman Catholic Church [...]

The president's voice came booming in through the open window of Rosa Namises's house, crackling over the loudspeakers from the soccer stadium next door. It was the early 1990s, just [...]

Byline: Ryan Lenora Brown At the end of each month, Rorisang Kamoli divides up her paycheck, the roughly $100 she earns from inspecting blue jeans in a factory in Maseru, [...]

Byline: Ryan Lenora Brown Esther Kine's nightmares don't require much imagination. What she sees when she closes her eyes is what she used to see when they were open: twisted [...]

For decades, if you needed health care in Masaka, a small town just outside Rwanda's capital, the Roman Catholic health center was your only option. That included women looking for [...]

The greatest betrayal of James Keppa's life took only as long as uttering these words: we need an ambulance. The next day, village medics knocked on the door of the [...]

Joyce Ledwaba's son Samuel was 17 years old when he disappeared from their Pretoria home in 1986. Although his body was never recovered, he is believed to have been tranquilized [...]

The roads that wind north from Lagos, Nigeria, toward the headquarters of the Winners' Chapel megachurch are lined with businesses such as Amazing Grace Hair Salon, No King But God [...]

The article focuses on women on the front lines of the Ebola crisis in Africa. It cites Esther Kine who collected and buried the bodies of the victims epidemic. The epidemic is the worst in history and it started in Guinea in December 2013 before spreading to Liberia and Sierra Leone. Tina Davies, formerly the coordinator for Ebola survivors at Sierra Leone's Ministry of Social Welfare, Gender and Children's Affairs, notes that Ebola touched the lives of tens of thousands of Sierra Leoneans.