Articles tagged with africa

South Africa’s painful journey from white minority domination to democracy, and the roles played by the rest of the world, is chronicled in a five-part documentary airing on PBS.

The former U.S. president asks for $93 million to eradicate a neglected disease that lingers in the new Republic of South Sudan.

Competing solar projects are vying to supply Germany’s renewable desires, each one trying to push the other into the shade.

Climatologist Chris Funk explains his findings that long-term ocean warming has created a chain reaction that is likely to permanently dry out East Africa.

Can the U.S. Army help stop an epidemic of rape and sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo?

With climate change set to wreck agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa, what will happen to the world’s poorest people?

When they beg for alms, are Senegalese “talibés” supporting Quranic schools — or being exploited? The government begins a fitful program of regulation.

Somali immigrants in America have followed European patterns of integration, and not the ideal of the melting pot.

Obstetric fistula, a devastating consequence of childbirth that is both preventable and treatable, draws nongovernmental organizations and health care companies to pledge to fight it.

University of Georgia professor William Kisaalita engineers simple, practical solutions — a milk chiller, a nutcracker and an egg incubator — for Africa’s rural poor.

Global community must step up to fight schistosomiasis, a parasitic disease as widespread as malaria, doctors say.

With few resources but the force of his title — U.N. special rapporteur on extrajudicial executions — Philip Alston holds governments accountable for the politically motivated killings they commit, or ignore.

Despite years of research on everything from ‘HeroRATS’ to TNT-sniffing bees, humans still remove most landmines by poking — very, very carefully — in the ground.

A Wonking Class Hero profile of a global environmental innovator.

Cristi Hegranes, a Miller-McCune Wonking Class Hero, expands the Global Press Institute to Kenya, where women will become the eyes and ears of the developing nation.

A globe-trotting geologist uses satellites and other remote-sensing platforms to find water under some of the world’s thirstiest places.

An American-led famine early warning system uses satellite technology to predict where best to stave off future starving in the rest of the world.

Researchers Christian Davenport and Allan C. Stam say the accepted story of the mass killings of 1994 is incomplete, and the full truth — inconvenient as it may be to the Rwandan government — needs to come out.

Are Liberia’s new steel and rubber concessions a sign of reform — or the exception that proves corruption still rules in resource-rich countries?

Attorneys who put the ‘pro’ in pro bono start girdling the globe to offer free help for countries struggling to implement the rule of law.

A nonprofit group is working to create the new Rwanda, made by orphans.

Jock Brandis invented a low-cost, people-powered peanut sheller that could raise millions out of poverty around the world. Now, if someone would just come up with the money to distribute it.

A Miller-McCune.com interview with the authors of the new book Economic Gangsters: Corruption, Violence and the Poverty of Nations