#West Africa

Author: Richard Gonzales / Source: NPR.org President Trump is extending for one year a program that gives Liberians protected status from deportation. The president’s action affects some 4,000 Liberians living in the U.S. The policy change, announced in a presidential memorandum Thursday,

Author: Manish Singh / Source: VentureBeat More than a year after Facebook commercially launched Express Wi-Fi in five markets, it is ready to bring the connectivity service to the sixth: Ghana. In partnership with telecom operator Vodafone Ghana, Facebook today launched Express Wi-Fi in the

Source: Washington Post January 24 at 9:43 AM Scientists have found evidence of the deadly Ebola virus in a bat in Liberia, the first time the virus has been found in a bat in West Africa, researchers and officials announced Thursday. A team of scientists working with the government of Liberia

Source: Good News Network Continuing the global battle against malaria, scientists are using a novel tool for the fight: sniffer dogs. In recent tests, trained sniffer dogs were able to successfully diagnose malaria infections simply by sniffing samples from socks worn briefly by children from a

Source: Atlas Obscura During the French-Indochina war, France sent more than 50,000 West African soldiers—recruited from various colonies—to what is now Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. So many of these soldiers were Senegalese that the corps became known as tirailleurs sénégalais (“Senegalese