We have reached the end of our trip. But not our work. A bunch of incredible stories by Ari Shapiro Ayen Grace Bior Noah Caldwell with pics from Ricci Shryock coming your way on @npr!
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Turning heads in Madrid with this 🔥street style. Sidy is wearing a jacket by Yoro, a Dakar-based designer.

First full day in Madrid. Vamos!

“We were warned days before we landed that the police were cracking down on people in transit, and by extension, any journalist asking questions. So we were prepared for tension.”

We were stopped by police. This is what happened and why

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Welcome NPR's new International Correspondents: Aya Batrawy and Emmanuel Akinwotu
Aya Batrawy Emmanuel Akinwotu
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So sad to say goodbye to producer extraordinare Noah Caldwell and the one and only Dady Ba and Gane. Please click the link below and take a moment to read (and listen) to a blog post Noah wrote about a moment we soon won’t forget.

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Gorgeous shot by Ricci Shryock

Didn’t bat an eye at this incredible view 🦇🦇🦇

Important pelican journalism happening over on our travel blog

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Our team is in Senegal at the moment and Ayen Grace Bior gives the rundown on why 👇

Follow along live and ask us questions about the trip 🙋‍♀️

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Do I look Senegalese, or do you look South Sudanese?
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Did the chair shrink or did Ari Shapiro grow 🤔

Lunch, anyone? The hospitality here is unmatched and the food is delicios. This is thieboudieun bou wekh and I am told it’s the national dish. It is a citrusy rice dish with fish 😋

EVERYTHING about this is perfect 😂❤️

A scene from the fish market in Saint Louis where market people eagerly await fishermen who have arrived with boats full of fish.

“I’d like to welcome you to Dakar, Senegal.” I’ve waited months to hear those words. ❤️🇸🇳❤️

My dad learned chess in jail as a political prisoner. They made chess pieces out of mud. Drew in the sand to create a chess board. That was over 30 years ago. This week, we played each other for the first time. I didn’t win 😂

“Reverse Freedom Rides”: Tricked by white supremacists with promises of work and housing, Black families were dropped in Cape Cod with nothing, an echo of Martha’s Vineyard migrant flights 60 years ago wapo.st/3qFV46l