Jason Straziuso

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In this photo taken Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012, children play with tablet computers given to them by the One Laptop Per Child project in the village of Wenchi, Ethiopia. The project gave tablets to the children in the poor, illiterate village to see how much the children could teach themselves and now many kids can recite the English alphabet and spell words in English. (AP Photo/Jason Straziuso)

Tablet as teacher: Poor Ethiopian kids learn ABCs

Jason Straziuso · December 24, 2012 10:09 am

FILE - In this Friday, Aug. 5, 2011 file photo, newly arrived Somali refugees wait outside a UNHCR processing center at the Ifo refugee camp outside Dadaab, eastern Kenya, 100 kilometers (62 miles) from the Somali border. After enduring months of grenade and other explosive device attacks, Kenya has announced new, more stringent controls aimed primarily at Somali refugees inside its borders, announcing this week that all refugees and asylum seekers from Somalia must return to the refugee camp complex in northern Kenya known as Dadaab. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)

After attacks, Kenya restricts refugee freedoms

Jason Straziuso · December 14, 2012 4:47 pm

FILE - In this Sunday, Sept. 23, 2012 file photo, masked Somali pirate Hassan stands near a Taiwanese fishing vessel that washed up on shore after the pirates were paid a ransom and released the crew, in the once-bustling pirate den of Hobyo, Somalia. A U.K.-led Piracy Ransom Task Force says the shipping industry must adopt additional measures to ensure that payments aren't made to pirates after a successful attack. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh, File)

Piracy group: Make sure Somali pirates aren’t paid

Jason Straziuso · December 12, 2012 7:50 pm

This combination satellite image taken by DigitalGlobe and released Thursday, Dec. 6, 2012 by the Enough Project, is claimed by the Satellite Sentinel Project to show before and after imagery taken March 27, 2012, left, and Nov. 26, 2012, right, of a burned village near Dilling in the South Kordofan region of Sudan. George Clooney, through the Satellite Sentinel Project which he helped found, said Thursday that satellite imagery shows that 26 villages, food crops and grasslands were intentionally burned in a 54-square-mile (140-square-kilometer) area of the Nuba Mountains of Sudan in November 2012. (AP Photo/DigitalGlobe via Enough Project)

Clooney: Village burnings in Sudan a war crime

Jason Straziuso · December 6, 2012 3:30 pm

A Congolese soldier at the last Congolese army check point in Munigi where fighting between the M23 and the Congolese army has been taking place in the past days near Goma, Congo, Monday, Nov. 19, 2012. Rebels believed to be backed by Rwanda fired mortars and machine guns Monday in a village on the outskirts of the provincial capital of Goma and threatened to attack the city which is protected by ragtag Congolese government troops backed by United Nations peacekeepers. The gunfire and explosions erupted in the early afternoon, hours after the M23 rebels said they were halting fighting in order to negotiate with the government of Congo. (AP Photo/Melanie Gouby)

Rwanda-Congo deja vu?

Jason Straziuso · November 20, 2012 5:00 am

As peace expands in Somalia, gov’t wants weapons

Jason Straziuso · October 31, 2012 3:08 pm

Kenyan official: 2,700 Ugandans dead in Somalia

Jason Straziuso · October 31, 2012 2:01 pm

Opposition leader sentenced to 8 years in Rwanda

Edmund Kagire, Jason Straziuso · October 30, 2012 4:00 am

Group: Hunger ‘critical’ in violent area of Sudan

Jason Straziuso · October 18, 2012 12:07 pm

No African leader qualifies for $5m award, again

Jason Straziuso · October 15, 2012 3:03 pm

Somali rebels ban food aid group

Jason Straziuso · October 8, 2012 4:22 pm

Seychelles bids for UN Security Council seat

Jason Straziuso · August 3, 2012 11:35 am