Tag: Africa

Two MONUSCO UN soldiers stand guard in Goma's port as Police Nationale du Congo officers who fled Goma when M23 rebels took over the city Nov. 18 2012, return on a barge to the port of Goma, eastern Congo, Friday Nov. 30, 2012. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

Congo’s elites undermining peacekeeping successes

Austin Bay · January 7, 2015 4:49 pm

U.S. President Obama, left, speaks as he is seated with Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, right, during a meeting with leaders of the Trans-Pacific Partnership countries. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Beltway Confidential

Free trade opportunities abound in 2015

Jason Russell · December 30, 2014 6:31 pm

Ebola deaths still rising, 7,708 killed

Paul Bedard · December 30, 2014 3:37 pm

Meriam Ibrahim is Terence Jeffery's pick for role model of the year.Â (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Meriam Ibrahim is role model of the year

Terence Jeffrey · December 24, 2014 6:33 pm

We think we're being guided by reason, but we're being pulled by intuition -- free trade helps everyone. (iStock)

Free trade and the delusion of self-sufficiency

Dan Hannan · December 22, 2014 10:00 am

Obama thanks troops for work in Afghanistan, West Africa

National Security

Obama thanks troops for work in Afghanistan, West Africa

Susan Crabtree · December 15, 2014 9:38 pm

President Barack Obama listens to Dr. Nancy Sullivan of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, during a tour of the Vaccine Research Center at the National Institutes of Health, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2014, in Bethesda, Md. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama presses Congress on Ebola funding

Brian Hughes · December 2, 2014 11:04 pm

AP Photo

World Bank: ‘We’re not ready’ for another Ebola-like epidemic

Paul Bedard · December 2, 2014 7:43 pm

Thirty-five hospitals nationwide are now capable of treating Ebola, the Obama administration announced Tuesday. (AP Photo)

CDC: 35 hospitals can treat Ebola

Brian Hughes · December 2, 2014 6:10 pm

A passenger arriving at the airport has her temperature checked to screen for fevers that could indicate symptoms of Ebola, amongst other illnesses, in Entebbe, Uganda, Thursday, Nov. 13, 2014. (AP Photo/Stephen Wandera)

U.S. government expands airport screening to travelers from Mali

Susan Ferrechio · November 16, 2014 10:39 pm

In this April 2014 photo provided by the United Methodist News Service, Dr. Martin Salia poses for a photo at the United Methodist Church's Kissy Hospital outside Freetown, Sierra Leone. Salia has tested positive for Ebola and will be flown, on Saturday, Nov. 15, 2014, to the Nebraska Medical Center, in Omaha, Neb., for treatment. (AP Photo/United Methodist News Service, Mike DuBose) MANDATORY CREDIT

Critically ill Ebola patient being flown to U.S.

Justin Green · November 15, 2014 5:42 pm

Members of the Army's 101st Airborne Division conduct a training exercise at Ft. Campbell, Ky., Thursday, Oct. 9, 2014. Members will travel to Liberia to build treatment centers and conduct medical training as part of the fight against the Ebola epidemic. (AP Photo/The Courier-Journal, Stephen Lance Dennee)

Pentagon to send reservists to West Africa for Ebola fight

Charles Hoskinson · November 14, 2014 10:59 pm