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Sudan Signs Peace Deal with Eastern Rebels
A peace deal was signed between the Sudanese government and Eastern rebels who had been waging a guerilla war against targets in the country...
Red Cross Connects Brothers Separated by War in Sudan
The American Red Cross of Alaska recently helped reconnect local Anchorage resident Tor Gach with his brother, who lives in a refugee camp in...
US Sends Food to Starving Sudanese
President Bush sent five aid ships filled with emergency stockpiles of food to Sudan and ordered the emergency purchase of another 40,000 metric tons...
In Southern Sudan, 250 demobilized child soldiers trade weapons for textbooks
UNICEF officials, parents, and local and military leaders celebrated the demobilization of 250 youngsters from armed forces and groups in Southern Sudan last week....
Hundreds of thousands of young Sudanese to go to school for first time thanks to UN aid
3 April – In a massive campaign to double the number of children in school as part of peace dividend, hundreds of thousands of...
Sudan and Chad Agree to Peace Plan
Sudan and Chad have agreed to end a crisis that began last year when fighting broke out on their border, reports BBC News.
"After months...
Egypt Has Finally Been Declared Malaria-Free After 4,000 Years of Infections—Even the Pharaohs
Egypt, one of the world's 15 most populous nations, has been certified malaria-free after a 'pharaonic' effort that began 100 years ago.
Killing nearly 600,000...
Sahara Desert Is Turning Green Amid Unusual Rains in Parts of North Africa
Bountiful rains are greening parts of the Sahara that haven't had a good soak in years.
An extratropical cyclone pushed across the northwestern Sahara on...
Good News in History, July 9
Happy 49th Birthday to the "coolest, weirdest, and savviest rock stars of our time," Jack White. Born in Detroit, his run of work with...
5,000-year-old Rock Art of Boats and Cattle Unearthed in the Sahara Shows Grassland Came Before Desert
Geologists have known for years that from 5,000 years ago and beyond, much of what is today called the Sahara Desert was a lush...
Good News in History, April 22
300 years ago today, Enlightenment philosopher Immanuel Kant was born in Prussia. This revolutionary thinker saw rationality as inseparable from morality, and Kant's formulation...
Archaeologists Unearth the Long-Lost Top Half of an Enormous Ramses II Statue
Nearly 100 years after the legs of a giant statue of Pharoah Ramses II were found in Egypt, archaeologists have finally located his better...
Good News in History, March 5
50 years ago today, a very special performance was held at Berkeley University to witness the singing of the Hymn to Nikkal. It had...
Good News in History, January 9
Happy 80th Birthday to Jimmy Page, the brilliant guitarist, songwriter, and producer whose groundbreaking band Led Zeppelin released its first album 51 years ago...
Good News in History, January 1
174 years ago today, the world's first "Mercy" Hospital was founded in Pittsburgh, United States, by a group of Sisters of Mercy from Ireland....
Cancer Plummets, Guinea Worm Eradicated, Bye-Bye Ebola—3 Huge Wins for Humanity
2022 saw major advances, and even victories in the efforts to combat several diseases, from industrialized to tropical ones.
Starting at home, a study last...
Undersea Cable to Funnel 3 Gigawatts of Solar Energy From Egypt to Power Millions of European Households
Taking advantage of the huge output of solar energy in places neighboring the Sahara Desert, a massive undersea power cable is coming to Europe...
16-Year Old Becomes the Youngest to Circumnavigate Earth in an Airplane
A 16-year old British boy is nearing the final leg of his five month adventure to become youngest person to fly around the world...
Scientists Digitally ‘Unwrap’ Pharaoh Amenhotep Mummy, While Leaving 3,000 Year-old Artifact Untouched
All the royal mummies found in the 19th and 20th centuries have long since been opened for study. With one exception: Egyptologists have never...
Siri and Alexa Don’t Support African Languages But This Nonprofit Swooped in to Offer 60 New Voices – Including Welsh
Not Apple's Siri, Google Home, Amazon's Alexa, or any other speech platform can hear or respond to a single African language, but as speech...