Jul 04 Watch Resentment and rumor builds against health workers trying to contain Ebola outbreak By PBS News Hour The latest Ebola outbreak in West Africa is now the largest and deadliest outbreak ever. And unlike outbreaks of the past, it is affecting both rural and urban areas. Jeffrey Brown talks to Laurie Garrett of the Council on Foreign… Continue watching
Jun 29 West African Ebola outbreak is deadliest on record By Xander Landen West Africa’s Ebola epidemic is now the deadliest on record, according to the World Health Organization. The disease has a mortality rate of up to 90 percent. Since the outbreak began in February, there have been 635… Continue reading
May 02 Watch In Senegal, thousands of young boys forced into begging system for Koranic study By PBS News Hour In the West African nation of Senegal, at least 50,000 talibes — young boys studying the Koran — beg for food and money to pay their master. Some of these boys left home so young they don’t know where they… Continue watching
May 02 Watch In Senegal, thousands of young boys forced into begging system for Koranic study By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Apr 08 Watch Unprecedented Ebola outbreak crosses borders in West Africa By PBS News Hour More than 100 people have died so far in the worst outbreak of the Ebola virus in years, which began in Guinea before spreading to Liberia. Now health officials are investigating possible cases in Mali and Ghana. Jeffrey Brown talks… Continue watching
Mar 23 Ebola virus detected in Guinea fever outbreak By Kayla Ruble The Ebola virus was detected in samples of a viral hemorrhagic fever that has killed more than 50 people in the West African nation of Guinea marking the first human outbreak of Ebola in the country, according to government officials… Continue reading
Jul 10 Watch Children in Burkina Faso Take on Dirty, Dangerous Work of Digging Up Gold Children in Burkina Faso Take on Dirty, Dangerous Work of Digging Up Gold… Continue watching
Aug 20 Watch Islamic Militants in Failed State of Mali Seize Control and Impose Sharia Law Islamic Militants in Failed State of Mali Seize Control and Impose Sharia Law… Continue watching
Jun 21 Watch Food Crisis in Africa Hits Niger’s Children Particularly Hard Food Crisis in Africa Hits Niger's Children Particularly Hard… Continue watching
Jun 27 Watch Ghana Looks to Give Citizens a Voice in Their Economic Future The West African nation of Ghana has enjoyed two decades of a thriving democracy by combining reforms and the bounty of its land. Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports on the country's efforts to give ordinary citizens a bigger… Continue watching