With Swift, Quiet Moves, Nigerian Group Limits Religious Violence
The city of Jos sits on an invisible fault line between Nigeria's mostly Christian south and its largely Muslim north. Its population is almost 50-50 Muslim-Christian.So it's not surprising that twin...
View ArticleEscaping South Sudan's Violence Often Means Going Hungry
Even in an undeveloped country like South Sudan, Ganyliel can feel like the middle of nowhere: a bunch of tiny islands surrounded by a gigantic swampy floodplain fed by the River Nile during rainy...
View ArticleWestern Countries Issue Warnings; Kenyan Tourism Gets Pummeled
The Baobab Resort sits on the south coast of Kenya's Mombasa Island, but it has some of the homey feel of an old Catskills resort.On a recent day, sounds from outside trickled into the resort's largest...
View ArticleAfrica's Leaders Aim To Change Perception Of The Continent
Africa rarely gets a break — in the news headlines, anyway. But as the spread of the deadly Ebola virus continues to dominate the news cycle, there's a very different story about Africa that threatens...
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Shadow Events Hope To Skim Some Attention From U.S.-Africa Summit
Copyright 2014 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.Transcript AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: The official African Leader Summit ends tomorrow, but all this week there are satellite events. Some of them...
View ArticleKenyan Health Workers Fear Ebola May Take Flight
Kenya's international airport is on high alert, since the Kenya Medical Association has called on the national airline to suspend flights due to concerns over the Ebola outbreak. The airline has...
View ArticleFleeing War And Finding Work
In most parts of the world, refugees are not allowed to work.But in Uganda, refugee life is different. One of the oldest refugee camps in Africa is remarkable not just for its stone houses instead of...
View ArticleWhen Do Food Shortages Become A Famine? There's A Formula For That
Chris Hillbruner has a little-known job with an extraordinary responsibility: to determine how close a given country has come to famine.In his six years at the U.S.
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Economic Impact Of Ebola Crisis Spreads Across Africa
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U.S. Airstrikes Might Narrow Aims Of Somalia's Leading Jihadi Group
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View ArticleIn Strange Twist, Kenyans March For Police Officer Accused Of Murder
Kenyans rate their police force among the most corrupt institutions in the country. Even worse, police are often accused of inflicting violence on citizens. So when a Nairobi officer was arrested for...
View ArticleAfricans Are Introduced To The Blood Pressure Cuff
Some blame witchcraft. Others think it's a bad batch of moonshine.But Esther Okaya, who lives in Korogocho, a slum in Nairobi, Kenya, says even teetotalers are falling victim. One minute quarreling...
View ArticleAfrica's 'Switzerland' Bans Ebola — But At What Cost?
Most African nations have responded to their Ebola-affected neighbors by canceling flights and closing borders. The logic driving this isolationism has little to do with advice from the World Health...
View ArticleShould You Stock Up On Chocolate Bars Because Of Ebola?
Jack Scoville was buying himself a chocolate bar a few weeks ago — Hershey's, milk — at a corner store in Chicago. And he noticed the price was just a bit higher than he's used to paying: 5 or 10 cents...
View ArticleNo Ebola, S'il Vous Plait, We're French: The Ivory Coast Mindset
There are all kinds of theories why Ebola hasn't arrived in Ivory Coast, despite the fact that it shares a long and very porous border with two Ebola-afflicted countries, Liberia and Guinea.Some Ivory...
View ArticleGuarding The Ebola Border
On a map, a border is a solid black line. On the ground, it can feel like a fiction. I'm standing on the edge of a shallow stream through the forest that separates two West African countries: Ivory...
View ArticleViral Videos Show Kenyan Women Assaulted For Wearing Miniskirts
Earlier this month, a woman selling hard-boiled eggs at a bus station in Nairobi got into an argument with a customer over 70 cents she said he owed her.The man mocked the mother of two — who was...
View ArticleWe're Down To 5 Northern White Rhinos: Is It Too Late For Babies?
A 44-year-old northern white rhino named Angalifu died this week at the San Diego Zoo of old age.Now only five animals remain in this subspecies, all in captivity. Four are females. The lone male lives...
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How To Pitch A Hamburger In A War Zone
Copyright 2014 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.Transcript LINDA WERTHEIMER, HOST: The Ukrainian economy is in trouble. The government's nearly bankrupt, but that has not stopped Ukrainian...
View ArticleDon't Bench That Dentist: A Guide To Ugandan English
You want to bench a pretty woman and launch your manifesto. Only you get bounced from her muzigo because she's pursuing a pensioner.In the end, you were lucky. She's just a detoother who's after a rich...
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