Jun 04 Watch 6:01 News Wrap: Hackers break into federal personnel office By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Thursday, suspected Chinese hackers reportedly broke into the Interior Department as well as the office that handles security clearances. Data for 4 million people may have been compromised. Also, at least 150 people were killed in… Continue watching
Jun 04 Explosion in Ghana kills scores of people seeking shelter from rains By News Desk An explosion at a gas station in Ghana’s capital Accra overnight killed more than 100 people, officials said Thursday. Continue reading
Jul 04 Watch Health workers race to halt Ebola in West Africa By PBS News Hour Health workers met in Ghana to coordinate on how to contain what has become the largest and deadliest Ebola outbreak from spilling over new borders. Since February, the virus has been reported in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. Jeffrey Brown… Continue watching
Jun 16 Ghana rations electricity ahead of World Cup debut By Diane Jeanty The West African nation has been forced to ration its electricity throughout the month due to shortages in natural gas and lower than average water levels needed to power the Akosombo dam along the Volta River. Currently, the dam is… Continue reading
May 19 Inspired by a plastic bag’s potential, nonprofit trains mothers in Ghana By Larisa Epatko Friends Rebecca Brandt and Callie Brauel quickly learned two things while they were studying and volunteering in Ghana’s capital Accra: everyone drinks water out of disposable bags, which end up discarded in the streets, and tens of thousands of children… Continue reading
Sep 25 Watch Death of Kofi Awoonor in Nairobi Attack Is ‘Great Loss’ for Ghana and Poetry Death of Kofi Awooner in Nairobi Attack Is 'Great Loss' for Ghana and Poetry… Continue watching
Sep 25 Death of Kofi Awoonor in Nairobi Attack Is ‘Great Loss’ for Ghana and Poetry By Tom LeGro Kofi Awoonor, a Ghanaian poet, diplomat and academic, was among the victims murdered in a terrorist attack at a shopping mall in Nairobi. Awoonor's nephew Kwame Dawes, another renowned poet, was traveling with his uncle to attend a literary festival… Continue reading
Sep 25 Poet Kwame Dawes Remembers Kofi Awoonor With Reading of ‘The Weaver Bird’ Wednesday on the PBS NewsHour, poet Kwame Dawes remembers his uncle, Ghanaian poet Kofi Awoonor, who was killed in the terrorist attack at the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya. Dawes read one of his uncle's most famous works, "The Weaver… Continue reading
Sep 25 Watch Kwame Dawes reads "The Weaver Bird" by Kofi Awoonor Kwame Dawes reads "The Weaver Bird" by Kofi Awoonor… Continue watching
Jul 23 Literacy Bridge Uses Talking Books to Spread the Word in Ghana By Cat Wise Students in Ghana listen to a Talking Book. All photos courtesy of Literacy Bridge. On a warm spring evening in 2006, software consultant Cliff Schmidt decided to take a walk near the hotel where he was staying for a… Continue reading