Africa
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SocietyTeenage Prisoners Get a Weekly Taste of Freedom with Fencing Lessons
The second largest prison in Senegal offers young inmates a weekly fencing class, where boys and girls can spend two hours training together outside the prison walls, restoring self-confidence and learning respect and discipline along the way.
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Society
SocietyStateless Children in Kenya Now Get a Better Start With Birth Certificates
600 young children from Kenya’s stateless Shona group have been issued birth certificates by the government for the very first time, in a drive to end statelessness and provide the Shona a better future with improved rights and opportunities.
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Technology
TechnologyZimbaweans use “Trash-Uber” to Get Rid of Their Garbage
The government in Zimbabwe has struggled to keep its capital city clean, leaving 10,000 tonnes piling up in the streets of Harare each month. Now, a local waste management company is stepping in with a mobile app solution, called the “Trash-Uber” by many.
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Health
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Animals
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Environment
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Technology
TechnologyNew Device Uses Night Sky to Switch On Light Bulb
When Stanford engineer Aaswath Raman drove by a village in Sierra Leone that didn’t have a single light on in its streets, he was inspired to build a device that generates electricity using the temperature differences that arise after sunset.
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