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Critic Robert Christgau is impressed by the new album from the Malian vocalist, whom he calls Africa's most important female singer. Seya is her first release after a 12-year absence from recording, spent raising a son and running a hotel, farm and other businesses.

President Bush has called for additional sanctions against Zimbabwe, which held a runoff presidential election on Friday that was marred by violence and widely seen as a sham. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, Jendayi Frazer, who is on her way to a summit meeting of the African Union, talks about sanctions and what she hopes to gain at the meeting.

Lillian Kay Petersen, 17, has won the Regeneron Science Talent Search, a top science and math competition for high school seniors. Her winning project: a tool to predict crop harvests.

City officials said Sunday that as many as 150,000 city residents could be at risk of infection, days after New York state called monkeypox an "imminent threat to public health."

Police in Ghana have arrested protesters demonstrating against the cost of living and the economic crisis gripping the country, once seen as a model economy in Africa.

A decade after the death of Nelson Mandela, many South Africans are asking what the anti-apartheid icon would have thought of the current state of the country and the direction it's heading in.

More and more countries are getting shipments of vaccines and starting to inoculate their populations. But it's an unequal picture across the globe.

The South African leader was key to the anti-apartheid movement. He chaired the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and preached forgiveness. Tutu died Dec. 26. Originally broadcast in '84 and '99.

James was discovered as a teen by talent scout Johnny Otis. Her career took off in the '60s with hits like "All I Could Do Was Cry" and "At Last." She died in 2012. Originally broadcast in 1994.

Jacksonville lawmakers and local health officials are turning to an unlikely activity to spur community involvement.The Blood Alliance and Walgreens will…