Oct 17 Protecting South Africa's artwork of democracy and reconciliation By Victoria Fleischer When the Apartheid regime fell in 1994, South Africa established the Constitutional Court. One of the original justices began collecting artwork for the court, with prominent South African artists donating the majority of pieces. Continue reading
Oct 17 Nigerian government and Boko Haram reach cease-fire deal By Ayan Sheikh According to the Associated Press, government spokesman, Mike Omeri told reporters that Boko Haram negotiators “assured that the schoolgirls and all other people in their captivity are all alive and well.”… Continue reading
Oct 17 Watch South African Justice Edwin Cameron on the Constitutional Court art collection By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Oct 17 Senegal officially declared Ebola-free By Larisa Epatko The World Health Organization said Friday that Senegal is officially free of the Ebola virus. Continue reading
Oct 17 Kobani key to U.S. strategy against Islamic State By Lara Jakes, Associated Press WASHINGTON — Dusty and remote, the Syrian city of Kobani has become an unlikely spoil in the war against Islamic State militants — and far more of a strategic prize than the United States wants to admit. Continue reading
Oct 16 Watch Literary festival celebrates African writers as Kenya marks an anxious anniversary By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Oct 16 Watch News Wrap: Wave of Islamic State attacks strike Baghdad By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Thursday, bombings and mortar fire rocked mostly Shiite neighborhoods in Baghdad. At least 50 people were killed in a wave of terror attacks by Islamic State forces. Also, Hong Kong leader Leung Chun-ying asked demonstrators to… Continue watching
Oct 16 U.S. continues to search for ground allies in Islamic State fight By Ken Dilanian, Zeina Karam, Associated Press WASHINGTON — Despite years of diplomacy and a CIA operation to vet and train moderate rebels, the U.S. finds itself without a credible partner on the ground in Syria as it bombs the Islamic State group. That's a potentially serious… Continue reading
Oct 16 70 percent Ebola death rate? Here's how they calculate it By Larisa Epatko Several viewers wrote in this week, questioning our math in an Ebola update that aired on Tuesday’s PBS NewsHour. Continue reading
Oct 16 Why do donations to fight Ebola remain modest? By David Crary, Associated Press NEW YORK — Individual Americans, rich or not, donated generously in response to many recent international disasters, including the 2010 earthquake in Haiti and last year's Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines. The response to the Ebola epidemic is far less… Continue reading