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Ebola in West Africa: Liberia’s Fight Against the Outbreak

The Fight Against Ebola The current Ebola outbreak in Africa began in west Africa in December 2013 and has become epidemic in the countries of Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia. VICE News sent a crew to film some of the conditions facing Ebola victims in Liberia and the daunting task medical personnel in these regions […]

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Liberia‘s Chief Medical Officer in Quarantine After Assistant Dies from Ebola

Bernice Dahn, the deputy health minister of Liberia and the country’s chief medical officer, has voluntarily placed herself under quarantine after her assistant died of ebola, Isaac Jackson, deputy information minister of Liberia told Reuters. To date, 3000 people have died from ebola in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. Liberia has suffered the vast majority […]

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Father of Modern South Africa and Apartheid Opponent Nelson Mandela Dies at 95

Following a period ill health, former South African President Nelson Mandela has died at 95 years of age from a recurrent lung infection while resting in his boyhood home region of Eastern Cape Province, South Africa. Nelson Mandela’s fight against white minority rule and his leadership of South Africa after the abolition of apartheid in […]

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Quote of the Day: The Observer’s Mark Townsend on the Central African Republic

The Central African Republic is all but lawless, with just 200 police to guard 4.6m people from rebel gangs who attack women, kill men and recruit children at will. Despite repeated warnings, the international community has done little, even as arms continue to flood into the country. Mark Townsend, The Observer To read more about the […]

Breaking News: Egyptian President Morsi Overthrown in Military Coup d’Etat

South Africans Asked to Pray for Nelson Mandela

South African President Jacob Zuma asked his fellow South Africans to pray for critically ill former leader Nelson Mandela who is hospitalized in Pretoria. Nelson Mandela is a national hero and South Africa’s first African president following the end of apartheid in 1994. He was hospitalized for a recurrent lung infection and his situation has stabilized but is still […]

News Headlines May 25, 2013

French Soldier Stabbed in Paris, Investigators Seek Link to Woolwich, UK Murder Riots in Sweden Spread Beyond the Capital of Stockholm Suicide Bomber Strikes in Dagestan Attacks on Muslims in the UK Increase in Wake of Woolwich Murder Google to Bring Wireless Internet Access to Africa British Police Arrest 3 More in Connection to Woolwich […]

Finance Minister Tendai Biti: $217 Remains in Zimbabwe’s Sovereign Account

In a report from Agence France Presse, Tendai Biti told reporters in Harare that Zimbabwe would have $217 remaining after it paid government workers, leaving the nation’s finances in a state of paralysis. Zimbabwe had extraordinarily high levels of inflation in 2011 and 2012 which the IMF claims have only recently moderated at levels beneath […]

Protests Continue Against Mohammed Morsi in Egypt

Protests still rage in Egypt during the second anniversary of similar actions that swept former longtime Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak from power. The rallies in the famed Tahrir Square have called for President Mohammed Morsi to step down from his post, with charges that he and the Muslim Brotherhood have betrayed the revolution and […]

French Troops Currently in Combat with Malian Insurgents

France’s campaign to topple the Malian insurgents who have seized control of a large portion of the country has entered the ground phase of the military campaign with French troops clashing with Islamist rebels today according to Malian and French authorities. About 40 French special forces troops dropped into central Mali to provide spot guidance […]