Tag: Africa

Ear to the Ground: Egypt Gives an Inch on Election Date

Reports: Climate Apartheid

Ear to the Ground: Gadhafi, Son and Aide Buried in Secret Site

A/V Booth: Goodman on Gadhafi

Ear to the Ground: Gadhafi Is Reported Killed in Libya

Ear to the Ground: Obama Sending U.S. Troops to Uganda

Reports: Suleiman’s Travels

Ear to the Ground: Libyan Convoy Spotted in Niger

Cartoons: Arab Spring Monster

Cartoons: Vultures in the Libyan Desert

Ear to the Ground: Howard Buffett’s Hope for Africa’s Future

Cartoons: Africa

Cartoons: Mubarak Trial

A/V Booth: Circumcision Gadget Is Easier and Safer, but Does It Hurt?

Cartoons: Horn of Despair

Cartoons: U.N. Food Agency Crisis Talks

Reports: A New Egypt on the Brink of Being Born

Ear to the Ground: South Sudan Becomes a Nation

Cartoons: The Crater

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Colleges Get In on African Land Grabs

Ear to the Ground: Gadhafi Not About to Leave Libya

Cartoons: G-8 Promises

Ear to the Ground: World Bank President Sounds a Warning

Ear to the Ground: Gadhafi Forces Fire Into Residential Areas

Ear to the Ground: Meanwhile, in Ivory Coast ...

Ear to the Ground: U.N. Suspects Ethnic Massacre in Ivory Coast

Ear to the Ground: Showdown Takes Shape in Ivory Coast

Ear to the Ground: Obama: ‘Days Are Numbered’ for Gadhafi’s Government

Reports: Be Consistent—Invade Saudi Arabia

Ear to the Ground: Republicans Heart Wall Street

A/V Booth: U.S., U.N. Consider Action in Libya

Ear to the Ground: Ivory Coast on the Brink

Reports: Obama Has 11 Options in Libya, None Ideal

Ear to the Ground: Foreign Leaders Work on Terms of Libyan No-Fly Zone

Cartoons: Pattern

Ear to the Ground: Obama Exploring ‘Full Range of Options’ on Libya

Ear to the Ground: Libyan Rebels Hold Off Pro-Gadhafi Forces

Cartoons: Hearing Voices

Ear to the Ground: Two U.S. Ships En Route to Libya

Ear to the Ground: Gadhafi the ‘Delusional’

Ear to the Ground: Angry Crowds Keep Tunisia on Edge

Ear to the Ground: New Protests Rock Tripoli

Reports: What to Do About the Mad Colonel

Cartoons: Liberate Libya

Ear to the Ground: Backlash Mounts Against Gadhafi

Ear to the Ground: Libya Brings in the Big Guns Against Protesters

Ear to the Ground: Libyan Protest Tops 200

Ear to the Ground: Valentine’s Day Roses Are Bad for Kenya

Ear to the Ground: Italy Declares Emergency Over Migrants

Ear to the Ground: Violence Dampens Southern Sudan’s Celebration

A/V Booth: Raw Video: Cairo, Tuesday Night

Ear to the Ground: South Sudan to Become World’s Newest Nation

A/V Booth: Watch the Egyptian Revolt in Real Time

Ear to the Ground: Ugandan Gay Rights Activist Beaten to Death

Ear to the Ground: Life Sentence for Embassy Bomber

Ear to the Ground: President Reportedly Flees Tunisia

Ear to the Ground: South Sudan Vote on Secession Begins

Ear to the Ground: Tunisian Protests Turn Deadly

Ear to the Ground: Riots Rock Algeria Over Prices, Jobs

Ear to the Ground: Civil War Warnings in Ivory Coast

Ear to the Ground: Nigeria Drops Charges Against Cheney

Reports: Christmas at the Forgotten Front

Reports: Colonialism Still at Heart of Africa’s Problems

Ear to the Ground: Israel Moves to Corral Illegal Entrants

Arts and Culture: ‘White Material’: Portrait of the Colonist in a Post-Colonial Land

Ear to the Ground: Two-Thirds of Benin Is Underwater

Reports: John le Carré: Calling Out the Traitors

Ear to the Ground: Nigerian Flooding Displaces 2 Million

Reports: Newt and the Closet Kenyan

Ear to the Ground: Six Dead in Mozambique Bread Riots

Ear to the Ground: Dropping the G-Word

Arts and Culture: When Dmitry Met Bono

Ear to the Ground: Troubled Times Slash G-8 Aid Pledge

Reports: Save the Trees, Save the Planet

Cartoons: Soccer: The Year of Africa

Arts and Culture: Doctors Without Borders, With a Film Crew

Ear to the Ground: Millions at Risk in Africa Drought

Ear to the Ground: Secret U.S. Plans for Clandestine Mideast Military Activity Brought to Light

A/V Booth: Obama’s African Aunt Granted Asylum in U.S.

Ear to the Ground: Jailed Gay Couple Ignite Rights Battle

Ear to the Ground: The Dictatorship That Cried Wolf

Ear to the Ground: Nigerian President Umaru Yar’Adua Dies at 58

Ear to the Ground: Sudan Heads to the Polls

Reports: Nigeria’s Unholy War

Ear to the Ground: Supremacist’s Slaying Stirs Racial Divide

Reports: One Nation, Two Presidents

Ear to the Ground: Nigerian Leader to Assemble New Cabinet

Ear to the Ground: Gadhafi’s Personal Holy War

Ear to the Ground: Epidemiologist Sees a Way to Curb Spread of HIV/AIDS

Ear to the Ground: Niger Hit by Military Coup

A/V Booth: The ‘Cross-Dressing Cannibals’ of Liberia

Ear to the Ground: 90 Feared Dead in Lebanon Plane Crash

Reports: The Mutallab Challenge

Ear to the Ground: Italian Town Aims Wrath at Migrant Workers

A/V Booth: AK-47s for All

Ear to the Ground: Gay Marriage Prompts Arrest in Malawi

A/V Booth: iRape

Ear to the Ground: Eritrean Team Seeks Asylum in Kenya

Reports: Digital Dumping and the Global ‘E-Cycling’ Scam

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

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