Tag: Africa

In this photo taken Thursday, May 31, 2018, Congolese health officials prepare to disinfect people and buildings at the general referral hospital in Mbandaka, Congo. For the first time since the Ebola virus was identified more than 40 years ago, a vaccine has been dispatched to front line health workers in an attempt to combat the epidemic from the onset.

Medical teams battle Ebola outbreak in Congo with experimental vaccine

Kimberly Leonard · August 9, 2018 8:10 am

Opposition MDC party supporters burn election posters with Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa during protest in the streets of Harare Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2018. Hundreds of angry opposition supporters outside Zimbabwe's electoral commission were met by riot police firing tear gas as the country awaited the results of Monday's presidential election, the first after the fall of longtime leader Robert Mugabe.

Beltway Confidential

The world can’t stand by during Zimbabwe’s election crisis

Tom Rogan · August 2, 2018 8:57 pm

PORT OF DJIBOUTI: A patrol boat 4 executes a sharp turn while patrolling in the Port of Djibouti during a training exercise.

National Security

Court ruling could block China from key US military port in Africa

Travis J. Tritten · August 2, 2018 2:50 pm

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa addresses a media conference at the end of the BRICS Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, on July 27, 2018.

Beltway Confidential

South Africa’s new land war is economic insanity

Tom Rogan · August 1, 2018 6:50 pm

In this photo taken Thursday, May 31, 2018, Congolese health officials prepare to disinfect people and buildings at the general referral hospital in Mbandaka, Congo. For the first time since the Ebola virus was identified more than 40 years ago, a vaccine has been dispatched to front line health workers in an attempt to combat the epidemic from the onset.

Ebola returns to Congo just one week after outbreak declared over

Kimberly Leonard · August 1, 2018 3:31 pm

In this photo taken Wednesday, May 30, 2018, a healthcare worker from the World Health Organization prepares vaccines to give to front line aid workers, in Mbandaka, Congo. For the first time since the Ebola virus was identified more than 40 years ago, a vaccine has been dispatched to front line health workers in an attempt to combat the epidemic from the onset.

Ebola outbreak in Congo officially over

Kimberly Leonard · July 24, 2018 2:26 pm

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen speak to the media during the daily briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House.

Somalia one of four countries to get TPS extensions from DHS

Anna Giaritelli · July 20, 2018 1:50 pm

Beltway Confidential

Stop saying the French World Cup team was really African

Louis Sarkozy · July 18, 2018 10:27 am

Former U.S. President Barack Obama waves as he and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pose for photographers arrives at a Japanese Sushi restaurant in Tokyo's Ginza shopping district, Sunday, March 25, 2018. Obama says negotiations with North Korea on its nuclear weapons program are difficult, partly because the country's isolation minimizes possible leverage, such as trade and travel sanctions against Pyongyang.

Obama visits Kenya for first time since leaving office

Steven Nelson · July 15, 2018 6:02 pm

Beltway Confidential

China bankrolled a new railway in Nigeria. Here’s why it’s a big deal

Erin Dunne · July 12, 2018 9:26 pm

In this photo taken on June 2, 2018, a health worker checks people's temperatures as they disembark a plane at the airport in Kinshasa, Congo.

Health officials contain Ebola’s spread in the Congo

Kimberly Leonard · July 6, 2018 8:51 pm

French President Emmanuel Macron speaks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel during a roundtable meeting at a European Union summit in Brussels on June 28, 2018.

Beltway Confidential

Why the EU’s new migrant deal fell apart on the same day it was signed

Tom Rogan · June 29, 2018 6:44 pm