Tag: Africa

Health workers wash their hands after taking a blood specimen from a child to test for the Ebola virus in an area where a 17-year old boy died from the virus on the outskirts of Monrovia, Liberia, Tuesday, June 30, 2015. Liberian authorities on Tuesday quarantined the area where the corpse of the boy was found, sparking fears this West African country could face another outbreak of the disease nearly two months after being declared Ebola-free. (AP Photo/ Abbas Dulleh)

Liberia has second confirmed Ebola case

Robert King · July 1, 2015 2:38 pm

Renewable energy advocates say U.S. subsidies are fair considering the subsidies the fossil fuel industry has received. (AP)

Energy and Environment

Renewables need change in global policy, says energy diplomat

Zack Colman · June 2, 2015 4:01 am

California is a land of calamity. The ground shakes, it runs dry and, with underappreciated frequency, it catches fire.Â (AP Photo/Jim Stimson via CalFire)

California: dry, earthquake zone, fire hazard

Washington Examiner Staff · May 11, 2015 9:00 am

The World Health Organization said on Tuesday, April 28, 2015 that it aims to identify all new Ebola cases in West Africa by the end of May to stop the spread of the lethal virus before the rainy season. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)

UN: New weekly Ebola cases in West Africa at its lowest

Kelly Cohen · May 7, 2015 1:53 pm

Clinton helped companies that donated to foundation profit off Africa

Sarah Bedford · May 5, 2015 10:26 am

Former President Bill Clinton, center, responds to a question from a pupil asking how the Clinton Foundation was started, as he and Chelsea Clinton talk about their foundation's "No Ceilings" project about the participation of women and girls globally, at the Farasi Lane Primary School in Nairobi, Kenya Friday, May 1, 2015. (AP Photo)

Clinton Foundation brings Hillary supporters to Kenya amid controversy

Sarah Bedford · May 4, 2015 6:17 pm

More than a third of the malaria-fighting drugs tested over the past decade in Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa were either fake or bad quality, seriously undermining efforts to combat the disease, a study said. (AP Photo/David Longstreath)

Shoddy and fake drugs create new pandemic in developing nations

Robert King · April 20, 2015 6:25 pm

President Barack Obama speaks about the negotiations to curb Iran's nuclear technologies during a statement in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, Thursday, April 2, 2015. Iran and and six world powers have agreed on the outlines of an understanding that would open the path to a final phase of nuclear negotiations but are in a dispute over how much to make public. (AP Photo/J. David Ake)

National Security

Obama expresses ‘horror and sadness’ over Kenya terrorist attack

Brian Hughes · April 3, 2015 9:34 pm

Colorado patient tests negative for Ebola

Colorado patient tests negative for Ebola

Robert King · April 2, 2015 2:06 pm

The five workers were evacuated from West Africa earlier this month after coming into contact with another healthcare worker who has Ebola.Â Â (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)

Nebraska hospital discharges five patients monitored for Ebola

Robert King · April 1, 2015 12:51 pm

President Barack Obama walks down the stairs of Air Force One upon his arrival at Andrews Air Force Base, Sunday, March 29, 2015. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Obama to visit Kenya for first time as president

Brian Hughes · March 30, 2015 2:13 pm

People take part in a demonstration to protest against the voting irregularities in the presidential election, in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, Sunday March 29, 2015. In the southern oil-producing center of Port Harcourt, thousands of Nigerians took to the streets to protest alleged killings of opposition campaign workers and voting irregularities. (AP Photo)

National Security

Violence causes dispute and delays of Nigerian election results

Ethan Barton · March 29, 2015 7:47 pm