Aug 01 Ebola outbreak moving faster than control efforts, WHO says By Anna Christiansen The Ebola outbreak in West Africa is moving faster than the health worker’s efforts to control the virus, the World Health Organization said Friday. Continue reading
Jul 28 Watch 5:20 Faced with challenging Ebola outbreak, medical workers use education to combat fear By PBS News Hour The Ebola outbreak in West Africa has killed more than 670 people and spread to four countries. Among those now infected are two American aid workers and the lead Ebola doctor in Sierra Leone. Gwen Ifill interviews Dr. Estrella Lasry… Continue watching
Jul 23 Watch 100 days since schoolgirls’ abduction, what explains Boko Haram’s expanding reach? By PBS News Hour It’s been 100 days since nearly 300 young schoolgirls were abducted by Islamist militants from a town in northeastern Nigeria. Chief foreign affairs correspondent Margaret Warner reports on the growing threat that Boko Haram represents in Nigeria and around the… Continue watching
Jul 14 Watch News Wrap: Boko Haram leader claims responsibility for unreported attacks By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Monday, a new video surfaced from the militant group Boko Haram in which the group’s leader claims responsibility for attacks never reported by the Nigerian government. The militant leader also offered to trade in kidnapped schoolgirls… Continue watching
Jul 13 Malala’s birthday wish: Bring back the Nigerian schoolgirls By Vic Pasquantonio Malala Yousafzai, who survived being shot by the Pakistani Taliban in 2012 said it is her birthday wish to help bring back Nigeria’s kidnapped schoolgirls. Continue reading
Jul 10 Mentally ill shackled and neglected in Africa’s crisis regions By Victoria Fleischer Robin Hammond had never considered the long-term mental health effects on the Africans whose stories of war, famine and conflict he had covered for 12 years as a documentary photographer. But on a 2011 reporting trip to Sudan, he witnessed… Continue reading
Jul 01 Watch News Wrap: Pro-Russian rebels, government forces renew fighting in Eastern Ukraine By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Tuesday, fighting resumed in Eastern Ukraine a day after President Petro Poroshenko ended a ceasefire with pro-Russian rebels. Also, a car bomb killed at least 56 people in Nigeria in the northeastern state where more than… Continue watching
Jun 28 Watch Two months later, search for missing Nigerian schoolgirls continues By PBS News Hour More than two months after their capture, the search continues for more than 200 girls kidnapped by extremists in Nigeria. New reports suggest search efforts are being scaled back, despite more kidnappings. Hari Sreenivasan speaks with Michelle Faul, the Associated… Continue watching
Jun 24 60 girls and women abducted in Nigeria, reports claim By News Desk A local official confirmed to the Associated Press that 60 girls and women and 31 boys were abducted by extremists in weekend attacks on villages in northeast Nigeria. The news agency reports that Nigerian security forces have denied the abductions… Continue reading
Jun 08 Watch Kidnapped girls still missing as Boko Haram continues spread of violence By PBS News Hour Continue watching