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Russia outsmarts France with nuclear power move in Niger

Russia has dangled the possibility of building a nuclear power plant in uranium-rich Niger - a vast, arid state on…

Paul Melly Paul Melly

How war has hurt Ethiopia’s Olympic hopes

Redae Gebreyesus could have been representing Ethiopia at the Paris Olympics, but his life was cut short by civil war.…

Girmay Gebru Girmay Gebru

A jail term felt like the end of my life – but it was also the start of a better one

Locked up at 21, I discovered I was creative and could express myself through words. Now I am a poet,…

Lady Unchained Lady Unchained