Libyan government confirms Moammar Gadhafi captured and killed; Obama speaks
Story by The Takeaway. Listen to the above audio for a complete report.Moammar Gadhafi, the longtime leader of Libya, has been captured and killed by the revolutionary forces that seized control of the...
View ArticleWomen in Tunisia wary of surge in Islamist power, fearful of losing their rights
On Sunday, Tunisia will hold its first democratic elections, and the stakes are very high. This could pit secularists against Islamists, and women especially are worried that the most liberal laws in...
View ArticleVIDEO: Tunsians turn out in droves to vote in first election since Arab...
Story by The Takeaway. Listen to the above audio for a complete report.Tunisians turned out in droves on Sunday to vote in their first election since the Arab Spring protests overthrew their autocratic...
View ArticleRastafarians make it life's goal to settle in Ethiopia — but the welcome...
Story from PRI's The World. Listen to the above audio for a complete report.Rastafarian artist Bandi Payne leads visitors through the jungle-like garden that surrounds his house in Shashamane,...
View ArticleFiber optic cables finally bring reliable Internet to Liberia, West Africa
Story from The World. Listen to the above audio for a complete report.Inside a small internet cafe in Monrovia, only three customers hunch over computers.Getting online in Liberia’s capital costs $2 an...
View ArticleSwaziland leader fought alongside Allied forces during World War II
Story from The World. Listen to the above audio for a complete report.The stock characters of World War II have been ingrained in our culture for decades. But this veteran breaks the molds.Mnikwa...
View ArticleLibya's schools trying to reform pro-Gadhafi curriculum
Story from The World. Listen to the above audio for a complete report.Since the toppling and death of former Libyan president Moammar Gadhafi, change is the watchword in Libya.A new prime minister has...
View ArticleErupting volcano in Africa provides sight-seeing opportunity for tourists
Story from PRI's The World. Listen to the above audio for a complete report.In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, there's a volcano that's putting on quite a show.Virunga National Park has a...
View ArticleIn Swaziland, hope for Arab Spring protests to spread to their impoverished...
The Arab Spring has shaken the foundations of regimes from Egypt to Libya. But so far, Africa's last absolute monarchy hasn't been gripped by uprising.Can that last?Swaziland is one of the smallest...
View ArticleSouth Africans prepare for life after Mandela
Nelson Mandela, now 93, spends most of his time at home in Qunu, his ancestral homeland in rural South Africa.The former president and anti-apartheid campaigner has made few public appearances in...
View ArticleSouth Africa trying to decrease instances of homophobia
Dozens of protesters gather in a large courtyard in front of the Khayelitsha Magistrate Court in Cape Town, South Africa.They’re here in memory of Zoliswa Nkonyana, a 19-year-old lesbian who was...
View ArticleLibya struggling to gain control of thousands of illegal guns in homes
In Libya, the widely held view is that country has solved its biggest problem – a dictatorship.But now that Moammar Gaddafi has been killed, many other problems are revealing themselves and...
View ArticleUrban farming an emerging trend as Kenya lives on edge of climate change
Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, is a bustling business city, but it’s also on the bleeding edge of climate change.Rainfall disruptions and drought have led to a mass migration from rural areas of the...
View ArticlePress freedom hard to come by in South Sudan
It all began with the wedding of the daughter of South Sudan President Salva Kiir.Instead of marrying within the Dinka tribe, his daughter chose to marry a businessman from Ethiopia – and her father...
View ArticleInvestigation uncovers unacknowledged civilian casualties from NATO's Libyan...
The seven-month NATO bombing campaign of Libya, ultimately leading to the downfall of Muammar Gaddafi, was designed, officials said, to protect civilians.That was its specific United Nations charge, in...
View ArticleLibyan government trying to recover assets from toppled dictator Gaddafi
A $16 million house on London's "Millionaire Row" could be the first Gaddafi family asset in the UK to be returned to the Libyan government.The luxury property with more than a half-dozen bedrooms and...
View ArticleSecular Tunisians worried about rising tide of Islamic fundamentalism
Tunisia has long been considered one of the Arab World’s most secular countries.But that secularism, which ended with the Arab Spring, came only at the point of a spear, or the barrel of a gun.Under...
View ArticleIn Ethiopia, a Saudi company leases land to grow and export rice
Gambella in western Ethiopia is one of the most fertile places in the mostly drought- and famine-stricken Eastern Africa country, with thick forests, scorching heat and abundant rains.But now Gambella,...
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A sanctuary in the Congo takes in orphaned chimpanzees
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, years of war have left many young Chimpanzees without parents or a family group.For years that's meant they'd be sold into the exotic pet trade or, perhaps...
View ArticleOnce the province of whites, Black South Africans embracing wine
In South Africa many things divide along racial lines. That includes alcohol consumption.Wine drinkers in South Africa are traditionally white, but the culture is starting to change as black wine...
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