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Five-time Grammy award winner Angélique Kidjo has made history as the first African musician to get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

Feinberg faculty are helping strengthen the next generation of healthcare professionals far beyond Chicago. Through a longstanding collaboration with the University of Global Health Equity (UGHE) in Rwanda, medical educators at Feinberg support a sustainable approach to global health: training educators who will go on to teach thousands of future physicians, nurses and other health professionals. 

Nigerians might be surprised to learn they live in a landlocked country and people in Ivory Coast shocked that they are southern African not West African – but that is what a map used by a US official at a recent conference showed

July 30, 2026, 8:27 PM EDT / Updated July 31, 2026, 7:38 AM EDT / Source: Reuters By Reuters

United States officials attending a major health conference in Brazil mislabeled the African countries they showed on a map, causing an online stir and a subsequent admission of error from the Department of State

A U.S. government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a State Department presentation at a global conference taking place in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attendees who took screenshots and posted them online

South Africa Goes Hand in Hand with Nigeria, Morocco, Kenya, Zimbabwe and All Other African Countries in Plunging US Tourism with a Record-Breaking Twenty-Five Percent Drop in Tourist Arrivals for Six Consecutive Months in 2026 – Travel And Tour World

Technology from American companies is being used to power a revolution in the scam industry, playing a key role in the industrialization and globalization of fraud. (AP video/ Serginho Roosblad/David Goldman)

South Africa Grants Visa-Free Entry to Travellers from Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Namibia and 18 Other African Nations: Who Can Stay for 30 or 90 Days Without a Visa Now? – Travel And Tour World

South Africa Joins Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Russia, Japan and More on Venezuela’s Seventy-One-Country Visa-Free Travel List as African Visa Rules Revealed – Latest Update You Need to Know – Travel And Tour World