Tag: Africa

Chocolate Prices May Soar Due To Ebola Outbreak
The price of chocolate is predicted to rise with the onset of the year’s biggest candy-consuming holidays:...
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Second Ebola Infected Patient Arrives in Atlanta
A North Carolina missionary who contracted Ebola while working in Liberia was...
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FIFA World Cup: Is Nigeria The Last Hope For Africa?
The African continent has yet to produce a World Cup-winning team. Many nations...
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Diamond Embargo On Ivory Coast Lifted By UN Security Council
The UN Security Council lifted the diamond trade ban against the Ivory Coast on Tuesday and reduced its arms embargo. In 2005, the...
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Ebola Outbreak Confirmed to Have Spread to Liberia
The World Health Organization (WHO) this week confirmed that an outbreak of Ebola haemorrhaggic fever in Western Africa has ente...
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Ebola Outbreak In Guinea, At Least 59 Dead
An outbreak of the ebola virus has spread to Guinea. According to UNICEF, at least 59 people in Guine...
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Elephants are Acute Listeners of Human Voices
The 1967 Disney classic, The Jungle Book, provided the American populace (and unfortunately the Republican party) with one of our most favorite adages: "An elephant never...
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Nigeria Gay Arrests, Torture and Prison?
On Monday, Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan signed the Same Sex Marriage Prohibition Act that criminalizes gay marriage, gay organizations and anyone working with or promoting...
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Nigeria’s Anti-Gay Bill Becomes Law Thanks To President Goodluck Jonathan
On Monday it was announced that Nigeria’s president Goodluck Jonathan...
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10 Countries With The Shortest Life Span
When observing the lifespans of groups of people by country, the statistics can get quite cumbersome. But this study mostly observed socioeconomic factors and diet, the other big f...
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Boko Haram: Priest Kidnapped in Cameroon Set Free
On Tuesday December 31, the Islamic militia of Boko Haram set free French priest Georges Vandenbeusch following a seven-week captivity. He arrived in France Wednesday, greeted b...
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White Army Forces in S. Sudan Stand Down, Mostly
Following more than two weeks of violent conflict that has killed almost 1,000 players and displaced thousands more, the 25,000 man-strong White Army militia has mostly disbanded a...
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South Sudan Coup Attempt Has Been Halted
In 2011, South Sudan became the newest nation on planet Earth, splitting from Sudan after years of brutal civil wars. Since it gained its independence, South Sudan has struggled to...
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Mozambique Airlines Crash Found in Namibia; 33 Dead
After delaying the search due to heavy rain Friday afternoon, the wreckage of a Mozambique Airlines flight has been found in Bwabwata National Park, near the borders of Angola and...
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