Tag: Africa

Robert Mugabe, the world's oldest head of state, just celebrated his 92nd birthday with yet another million-dollar party. Even as his countrymen starve, Mugabe has never spared any expense on himself. (AP Photo)

Robert Mugabe’s global warming birthday

James Wanliss · March 2, 2016 5:02 am

Demonstrators gather outside the dental practice of Walter Palmer, who returned to his practice, Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2015, in Bloomington, Minn. Palmer, after weeks out of the public eye, was the subject of an international uproar after he was identified as the hunter who killed the famous lion Cecil, in Zimbabwe. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)

Washington Secrets

Humane Society: Obama has effectively ended ‘canned’ African lion hunts, Americans kill 90%

Paul Bedard · December 30, 2015 5:50 pm

Estimates showed about 500,000 lions lived in Africa at the beginning of the 20th century. By mid-century, there were about 200,000 lions and now just 20,000 lions are estimated to live in Africa. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

Energy and Environment

U.S. moves to protect lions as endangered species

Kyle Feldscher · December 21, 2015 6:29 pm

According to campaign spokesman Doug Watts, Carson's week-long trip was cancelled due to "significant security concerns." The 2016 hopeful was supposed to embark on the trip two days after Christmas, with stops in Nigeria, Kenya and Zambia on the docket. (David Guralnick/Detroit News via AP)

Carson cancels Africa trip over ‘security concerns’

Al Weaver · December 17, 2015 4:29 pm

Saudi Arabia said Tuesday that 34 nations have agreed to form a new "Islamic military alliance" to fight terrorism with a joint operations center based in the kingdom's capital, Riyadh. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy, File)

National Security

Saudi Arabia to lead 34-nation counterterrorism coalition

Kelly Cohen · December 15, 2015 12:46 pm

The U.S. could see its presence in the fight against the Islamic State expanding with a string of military bases across Africa and the Middle East under a new Pentagon plan, according to a report. (AP Photo/Osama Sami)

National Security

Pentagon requests string of bases to strike Islamic State

Jacqueline Klimas · December 10, 2015 2:53 pm

Carson announces post-Christmas trip to Africa

Carson announces post-Christmas trip to Africa

Al Weaver · December 8, 2015 12:16 am

Vice President Joe Biden, left, with wife Jill Biden, said "We have the capacity to change the desperate circumstances endured by millions of people around the world and to change those circumstances in real time -- not down the road, not a long time from now." (Photo by Greg Allen/Invision/AP)

Biden celebrates Obama’s bold new anti-AIDS goals

Anna Giaritelli · December 2, 2015 6:35 am

Nigerien soldiers walk near debris after suicide bombers blew themselves up inside a military barracks, in Agadez, northern Niger. A U.N. delegate said young adults in the north-central region of Africa are susceptible to joining terrorism groups due to economic hardships. (AP Photo, File)

Terrorists could recruit 41 million from this region

Anna Giaritelli · November 26, 2015 1:38 am

A group of Burundi former and current officials is accused of overseeing and ordering torture, participating in a failed coup attempt and violently repressing government protestors, among other acts. (AP Photo)

Obama declares emergency in Burundi, sanctions leaders

Nicole Duran · November 23, 2015 5:56 pm

The Ebola outbreak resulted in more than 11,000 deaths in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone in fall 2014, and isolated cases are still appearing sporadically in those countries. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

Panel rips apart WHO’s Ebola response

Paige Winfield Cunningham · November 23, 2015 3:35 pm

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said aid worker Anita Datar was "a bright light who gave help and hope to people in need around the world, especially women and families." (AP Photo/Mic Smith)

National Security

Clinton says she knew American killed in Mali terror attack

Daniel Chaitin · November 21, 2015 11:44 pm