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When fighting broke out near her home in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Antoinette fled for her life. Now, weeks later, she says she faces a stark choice: starve or return to the fields to harvest the food or risk being shot. She is one of hundreds of thousands of people whose lives…

From water to tomato paste to washing powder... Many Nigerians struggling with soaring prices are buying their necessities in small quantities, packed in tiny plastic bags.

The small village of Purapul in northern Kenya has not seen important rainfall for 3 years and residents have been pressured to show to consuming bitter wild berries to outlive, though some say this is just a matter of time earlier than they succumb to hunger. . Their plight is a component…

More than four decades after being driven to extinction in the region, rhinos are once again roaming the wilds of Mozambique following an ambitious project to relocate a number of animals from South Africa neighbor.

Families of miners trapped for weeks in a flooded mine in Burkina Faso are hoping their loved ones will be found alive. The eight - six Burkinabe, a Zambian and a Tanzanian - have been missing since an underground section of the mine flooded on April 16 following heavy rain.

The Central African Republic, one of the poorest countries in the world, has become the second country in the world to adopt bitcoin as its official currency. But some have questioned the necessity of cryptocurrency in a country where few even have internet access.

A new attempt to purify New Delhi's notoriously polluted air will see 40 giant fans push filtered air into the heart of the Indian capital's exclusive shopping district. But the "smog tower" of 1.7 million euros is not without skeptics, who say it will not help a city known for having the most polluted air in the world. .

Tokyo 2020's handsome Olympic mascots are dressed over the host city, but they have some serious competition in mascot-crazy Japan, where cuddly characters promote everything from prisons to health examinations. In Hello Kitty and Pokémon Land, adorable creatures give a friendly face to both private companies and public institutions, and the most successful have full celebrity status. .