East Africa

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Uganda, theGrio.com
January 2, 2024
Tonto, a popular boozy banana drink in Uganda, is under threat as authorities move to restrict home brewers.
February 26, 2023
Biden promoted U.S.- backed programs that teach about HIV/AIDS, preventing infection and safe sex practices.
January 19, 2023
The Berlin museum authority said Wednesday that it was ready to return hundreds of human skulls from the former German…
Congo
September 22, 2022
Uganda aims to track down 43 contacts of known Ebola patients two days after announcing an outbreak of the contagious…
April 3, 2022
There were high hopes for peace and stability when oil-rich South Sudan gained its long-fought independence from Sudan in 2011.
East Africa Desert theGrio.com
July 20, 2020
Reports are now saying that millions of years from now, a new ocean and continent will be formed separating East…
July 30, 2015
OPINION - President Obama just completed an historic trip to Kenya, his ancestral home and the land of his father’s…
December 26, 2014
My name is Moji Akinde, and I am an African from Nigeria. And I am American. And I am black.
October 20, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - Two East African children will remain home past the 21-day waiting period before beginning elementary school in…
March 20, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - New interviews with members of Lupita Nyongo's family reveal that some of the cruelty and agony the…
December 4, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Budding filmmaker Nathan Araya and his friends have created a documentary 'Sincerely, Ethiopia' which tackles the media’s…
October 5, 2013
NBC News - In twin raids in Africa on Saturday, U.S. commandos captured two of the world’s most-wanted terrorists.
September 24, 2013
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya's president proclaimed victory Tuesday over the terrorists who stormed a Nairobi mall, saying security forces…
June 27, 2013
OPINION - Some people are mad at President Barack Obama, but not the ones you might expect. This time, don’t…
February 18, 2013
theGRIO's 100 - In addition to training future physicians and practicing medicine -- where he treats victims of violence from…
August 9, 2011
NEW YORK (AP) - A Bob Marley song and the social media power of celebrities like Lady Gaga, Rihanna and…
August 8, 2011
DADAAB, Kenya (AP) - A U.S. aid official warned Monday that hundreds of thousands of Somalis could die as famine…