Tag: africa

Ear to the Ground: Massive Malaria Vaccine Trial Begins

Ear to the Ground: 40,000 Flee New Fighting in Congo

Ear to the Ground: United Nations: 1 Billion Going Hungry Worldwide

Ear to the Ground: Widespread Rape, 157 Dead in Guinea ‘Hell’

Ear to the Ground: Kenyan Poverty Tourism

Ear to the Ground: War Is Over! (If You Say So)

Arts and Culture: Nollywood Rising

Ear to the Ground: Nigerian Sect Leader Killed in Police Custody

Ear to the Ground: Obama to Seek to End Africa’s Conflicts

Ear to the Ground: S. African Strike Threatens World Cup

Reports: Designer Vaginas: Is Female Circumcision Coming Out of the Closet?

Ear to the Ground: Privatizing Health Care in the Third World

Ear to the Ground: Charles Taylor Finds Yahweh

Ear to the Ground: Cholera Plagues Zimbabwe

Reports: Austrian Artist Becomes Nigerian Ancestor

Ear to the Ground: ANC Celebrates Early in South Africa

Cartoons: Piracy of Africa [A Cartoon From Jordan]

Reports: Who is Mogae?

Arts and Culture: Dylan: Obama’s ‘Like a Fictional Character, but He’s Real’

Ear to the Ground: Darfur Food Disaster Looms

Reports: Obama’s Plan to Save the World

Cartoons: Obstinance Only

Ear to the Ground: Pope: Condoms Don’t Help in Fight Against AIDS

Reports: We Are Breeding Ourselves to Extinction

Reports: Africa’s Good Friend

Reports: Bad News From America’s Top Spy

Ear to the Ground: Tsvangirai to World: ‘Get Over’ Mugabe

Ear to the Ground: A New Day in Zimbabwe

Arts and Culture: David Rieff on ‘Africa’s World War’

Ear to the Ground: Mugabe Learns How to Share ... Maybe

Reports: What Can Obama Learn From Bush?

Reports: Still Dreaming After All These Years

Reports: Bush’s Short View of History

Reports: Believe It or Not, 2008 Was Relatively Nonviolent

Reports: What Will ‘Brother Barack’ Do for Africa?

Reports: Man Is a Cruel Animal

Reports: Time to Cut the Military Pork

Ear to the Ground: Mugabe’s Last Stand?

Ear to the Ground: New Hope in the Fight Against AIDS

Ear to the Ground: AIDS Theory Runs Amok

Ear to the Ground: Pirates Capture Yet Another Ship

Ear to the Ground: Hillary Clinton Is Kind of, Definitely, Maybe (Not) the Next Secretary of State

Arts and Culture: Jane Ciabattari on Toni Morrison’s ‘A Mercy’

A/V Booth: Palin Talks Africa, ‘Wardrobe-Gate’ in Fox News Interview

A/V Booth: Palin Takes Aim at New Negative Reports

A/V Booth: Fox News Report: Palin Didn’t Know Africa Is a Continent

Ear to the Ground: Congolese Ethnic Violence Worsens

Arts and Culture: Powell Busts a Move

Arts and Culture: Does the Cold War Have Lessons for Today?

Cartoons: Mugabe, Tsvangirai

Ear to the Ground: Zimbabwe’s Baffling Power-Sharing Agreement

A/V Booth: The Algeria/al-Qaida Connection

Ear to the Ground: Bloodless Coup Leaders Arrest Mauritania’s President

Ear to the Ground: Rwanda Says France Participated in Genocide

Reports: AIDS and the Myth of the Oversexed Negro

Ear to the Ground: Zimbabwe Leaders Inch Toward Talks

Ear to the Ground: Mandela at 90

Cartoons: Africa Aid

Reports: Surviving the Fourth of July

Ear to the Ground: Zimbabwe Election Goes Forward

Ear to the Ground: Mugabe Turns a Deaf Ear to Critics

Cartoons: Who Is Going to Stop Mugabe?

Ear to the Ground: Mugabe Opposition Quits Election

Ear to the Ground: Mugabe Ripped for Food Trip

A/V Booth: ‘A Walk to Beautiful’

Reports: Us vs. Them

Truthdig Podcast: Us vs. Them

Ear to the Ground: Jimmy Carter: Guess Who I?m For

Ear to the Ground: Cannibalism Charge at Hague Trial

A/V Booth: ‘Daily Show’: Bush Becomes Entertaining

A/V Booth: Bush Unable to Avoid Public Display of Dancing in Liberia

A/V Booth: Bush on Why the U.S. Didn’t Send Troops to Darfur

Cartoons: Weeping in Blood

Reports: The Invisible War

Ear to the Ground: Kenya Violence May Be Easing

Cartoons: Help

Ear to the Ground: U.N. Downsizes AIDS Estimate

Reports: Oprah’s Learning Curve

A/V Booth: Selective Charity

Ear to the Ground: ‘Plumpynut’ to the Rescue

Ear to the Ground: DNA Scientist Apologizes for Race Remarks

Ear to the Ground: Secretary-General ‘Humbled’ by Darfur

A/V Booth: A Brief History of Bono

Cartoons: Under New Management

Ear to the Ground: U.N. Approves Peacekeepers for Darfur

Cartoons: Africa’s Obesity Problem

Ear to the Ground: Bad News About Global AIDS Rate

Ear to the Ground: China and Africa:  Uneasy Bedfellows?

Ear to the Ground: Egypt Bans Female Genital Mutilation

Reports: Can Drag Queens and Hired Guns Save Darfur?

Ear to the Ground: Jefferson Insists He’s Innocent

Reports: Nigeria: New Government or Puppet Succession?

Reports: Stop Ignoring AIDS and Africa

Truthdig Podcast: Getting Personal With AIDS and Africa

Reports: A Shining Light Goes Out in Africa

Ear to the Ground: World Bank Committee:  Wolfowitz Is Guilty

Reports: ‘American Idol’ Tackles Poverty

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Gives Sudan Ultimatum

Ear to the Ground: Al-Qaida Making Mergers

Reports: Between Wrongdoing and ‘the Done Thing’

Ear to the Ground: Sudan Signals Acceptance of U.N. Peacekeepers

Ear to the Ground: Darfur Camps Running Out of Room

Reports: Jabari Asim: Bone-Deep Similarities

Ear to the Ground: Second U.S. Air Raid in Somalia

Ear to the Ground: U.N. Pledges Revitalized Darfur Effort

Ear to the Ground: Turning the Corner in Somalia

Ear to the Ground: Disappearing Act in Mogadishu

Ear to the Ground: Circumcision Reduces AIDS Risk

Ear to the Ground: First Gay Marriage in Africa

Reports: The Africa You Need to Know

Ear to the Ground: S. Africa Parliament OKs Gay Marriage

Ear to the Ground: Why Are GOP’ers Protecting Condom Production?

Ear to the Ground: Cash for Good Governance in Africa

Ear to the Ground: South Africa Revises AIDS Policy

Reports: Best Medicine for Ailing Africa

Reports: Jabari Asim: Black American Males, or Short-Timers

Ear to the Ground: India Tops World for HIV/AIDS Cases

Ear to the Ground: Report: 162 Million Africans at Direct Risk From Global Warming

Multimedia Gallery: Standing on The World Stage

Ear to the Ground: Scientists Find ‘Missing Link’ Fossil

Ear to the Ground: Food Shortages Put Millions of Kenyans in Peril

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