Even before the Netflix hit “The Queens Gambit” aired on television COVID had sparked more interest in the game of Chess. In this piece narrated by Anna Rice, Elena Wolf talks about the game with Russian grandmaster Garry Kasparov.
A girls education rights group, the Malala Fund, says the majority of Nigeria's out of school children during the pandemic are girls and that the gap with boys is widening. Ifiok Ettang reports from Jos, Nigeria.
Simon Marks reports from Addis Ababa.
closed for over a year to stop smuggling, to offer some relief. Timothy Obiezu reports from Abuja.
A second wave of COVID-19 in Uganda has overwhelmed hospitals with patients. Uganda has close to 32,000 confirmed cases of the virus, and at least 238 people have died from the illness. Halima Athumani has more from Kampala.
More than 170 people have died from yellow fever outbreaks in Nigeria this year, despite vaccines being available since 2004. Experts say apathy to vaccines in rural areas is the biggest challenge, as Ifiok Ettang reports from Bauchi, Nigeria
As VOA’s Anita Powell found in this report, from Johannesburg, the issues in the sport cut to the very core of South Africa’s own struggles to build as a fair society.
To many people classical music evokes images of European musical masters like Mozart slaving over their symphonies. But the world of classical music is much wider, as Warangkana Chomchuen and Neetikarn Kamlangwan report.]]
With manipulated images flooding the internet, how can we tell what’s true? Matt Dibble looks at one solution: a digital seal of authenticity.
VOA’s Anita Powell caught up with one university-educated young South African who said his middle-class dreams have been shattered.
For VOA, Muhammad Saqib now on the difficult life of many refugees who end up in Pakistan. Bezhan Hamdard narrates his story.]
A teacher from Virginia needed a private place to conduct her remote learning classes. Lesia Bakalets tells about how she turned a small space into an unusual office. Anna Rice narrates.
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