Krista Mahr
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Krista Mahr is a special correspondent.
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Uganda has been grappling with an alarming spate of measles cases, even though there’s plenty of the vaccine to go around.
Oct. 20, 2019
Museum exhibitions dedicated to the ‘butcher of Uganda’ are the country’s foray into the market for macabre tourism
Sept. 11, 2019
Since Bobi Wine was elected to the Ugandan Parliament in 2017, he has lost count of how many times he has been arrested.
July 16, 2019
South Africa’s ruling African National Congress was on track to maintain its majority in parliamentary elections on Friday, though the vote saw flagging support for Nelson Mandela’s legendary liberation party and a boost for smaller parties at more extreme ends of the political spectrum.
May 10, 2019
Winter arrived on election day in Johannesburg, and at one polling station in the city’s Soweto section, supporters of the ruling African National Congress tucked their green, yellow and black party flags into their woolly hats, waiting in the cold for President Cyril Ramaphosa to arrive.
May 8, 2019
It is just after 9:30 a.m., and a throng of onlookers stands along Dr.
May 5, 2019
Every evening as 5 o’clock approaches, the clogged, perpetually dusty streets of this industrial city in southeastern Nigeria begin to empty.
April 30, 2019
James Mashakeni, 22, began smoking nyaope, a heroin-based narcotic, after a blowout fight with his dad nine years ago.
April 21, 2019
Late one night in December 2017, a black handyman named Joseph Mona was asleep when his white employers woke him up and instructed him to turn on a pump connected to a sewage pit on the property.
March 28, 2019
Amid scattered violence, Nigerians went to the polls Saturday to elect a president, a week after a jarring postponement of the vote was announced just five hours before polling stations had been due to open.
Feb. 23, 2019