What will Obama actually do in his week traveling around Africa?
President Barack Obama finishes an address following a tour with his family of Cape Coast Castle in Ghana. Now that the cost concerns about President Obama’s trip to sub-Saharan Africa are long...
View ArticleMalala at the UN: Fight poverty and injustice with pens and books
Pak News The Taliban made a big mistake in Pakistan when they attacked children traveling to school last October. A young girls education activist named Malala Yousafzai was critically wounded. Malala,...
View ArticleRupee Down: Is India a sinking BRIC?
Wen-Yan King The breaks are screeching on the once throttling Indian economy. The national currency, the rupee, hit a new all-time low against the US dollar today. Five years ago the country was...
View ArticleEbola epidemic raging ‘out of control’ in West Africa
The ongoing Ebola outbreak in West Africa shows little sign of slowing down. There have been 337 reported deaths and 528 cases, according to the World Health Organization, since March. Yesterday, the...
View ArticleGreenpeace staffers call for resignation of top leaders
The fallout has been swift in the month since it was revealed that Greenpeace International’s program director was regularly commuting by plane between his home in Luxembourg to the organization’s...
View ArticleBreastfeeding longer may contribute to later success, study finds
A new study from Brazil shows that children who breastfed longer had higher IQs, and overall improved socioeconomic status. While grabbing big headlines as a simple solution to child development, some...
View ArticleGovernment scheme sparks brain drain controversy in Uganda
The decision by Uganda to send nearly 300 medical professionals the Caribbean has sparked a controversy that extends beyond the East African nation. Belgium says it will make cuts to the €11 million in...
View ArticleSahel: Drought, displacement and conflict leave 20 million food insecure
Conflict and drought are working in tandem to leave more than 23 million people food insecure in West Africa. Yet again, there are concerns that the region is on the brink of crisis. And predictions of...
View ArticleUncertainty in wake of Paris climate change agreement
The hard-fought battle to set a global agenda for slowing climate change is over. Delegates struck an agreement in Paris to take steps that will limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. It was...
View ArticleThe end of polio is near(ish)
With only 22 cases of polio last year and nine cases in 2016, the end of the virus is nearly here. It is possible we could see the final case ever within the next year, the World Health Organization’s...
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