Jan 20 ‘Nigeria on the Brink’ Outlines Troubled Country’s Biggest Hurdles By Larisa Epatko The Nigerian government narrowly averted a lengthy strike that would have cut off oil supplies from one of the United States' major suppliers, but plenty of other problems abound in Africa's most populous nation. Continue reading
Dec 20 Watch Film Tells Story of Warlord-Turned-Evangelist Known as General Butt Naked The film "The Redemption of General Butt Naked" follows a brutal African warlord who has renounced his violent past and reinvented himself as a Christian evangelist. This excerpt is part of The Economist Film Project series of independently produced films… Continue watching
Dec 19 Watch A Warlord’s Quest for Forgiveness in ‘The Redemption of General Butt Naked’ For more on this story go to, http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/blog/… Continue watching
Nov 29 Watch In Egypt and Congo, Questions of Election Legitimacy Remain Millions of Africans voted Tuesday in two very different elections. Margaret Warner discusses elections in Egypt and Congo with The International Republican Institute's Scott Mastic, who's leading an election monitoring team in Cairo, and Soloman Moore of The Wall Street… Continue watching
Nov 28 In Congo, a Vote Followed by Two More Weeks of Tension By Larisa Epatko Millions of Congolese went to the polls Monday to vote on a new president and Parliament. But several attacks leading up to the vote and early allegations of fraud have some wondering if this test of the Central African country's… Continue reading
Nov 18 Bombings Spur Relocation of Sudanese Refugee Camp By Larisa Epatko A group of refugees in South Sudan must pick up and leave what they thought was a safe haven after bombs dropped by northern government forces came perilously close last week -- but many do not want to move. Continue reading
Nov 09 Liberian President Poised to Win Re-election in Tense Runoff By Larisa Epatko Many Liberians and their friends in the West had hoped the country, once plagued by civil war, was continuing its march to democracy. But the presidential run-off election Tuesday has dashed some of those hopes as violence erupted and the… Continue reading
Oct 31 Watch For Liberia, Natural Resources Are Blessings, Curses on Road to Democracy Liberia's Oil, Diamond Resources Are Both Blessing and Curse… Continue watching
Oct 31 U.N. Refugee Chief: ‘Terrible’ to Know Somalis Are Dying Out of Reach By Larisa Epatko The humanitarian crisis in Somalia continues to deepen by the day. A recent spate of kidnappings of relief workers is preventing aid from reaching those most in need, and now troops from neighboring Kenya have entered Somalia to try to… Continue reading
Oct 21 The Next Libya: A ‘New Dubai’ of North Africa? By Larisa Epatko Now that Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi is gone, what will the country need to do to return to normalcy and what could a future Libya look like?… Continue reading