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April 23, 2022
The Imo state government is looking for the owner of the refinery and declared him a wanted individual, an official…
January 16, 2022
Amid the mourning, there was also frustration and anger as family, friends and neighbors of the dead tried to make…
January 9, 2022
The sanctions mark the steepest consequences for Mali to date, and include land and air border closures with some other…
July 31, 2021
Many West African countries are seeing their highest COVID-19 caseload since the pandemic began amid the spread of the delta…
May 30, 2021
Leaders of the West African regional bloc gathered in Ghana for an emergency summit on Mali in response to the…
May 1, 2021
Most of the women come from Nigeria’s Edo state and work off debts in squalid conditions at or near small-scale…
July 28, 2020
The U.S. establishment of Liberia in West Africa is emblematic of the pervasiveness of American anti-Blackness, says theGrio's Christina M.…
April 2, 2018
In parts of Africa, the HIV/AIDS rate is growing at an alarming rate: 170 people are infected with HIV every
September 19, 2016
Eric Manu was declared chief of the Akan tribe in southern Ghana, but he's coming back to B.C. in Canada…
December 26, 2014
My name is Moji Akinde, and I am an African from Nigeria. And I am American. And I am black.
October 30, 2014
WASHINGTON (AP) — Pushing to confront Ebola at its West African source, President Barack Obama said Wednesday the United States…
October 28, 2014
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) —Australia is suspending entry visas for people from Ebola-affected countries in West Africa in an attempt to keep out
October 27, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - American media coverage of the Ebola virus is "bizarre,"according to one veteran CNN anchor. CNN International anchor…
October 20, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - Two East African children will remain home past the 21-day waiting period before beginning elementary school in…
October 18, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - The spreading Ebola outbreak continues to dominate the news, and as with every major story, conspiracy theories…
October 8, 2014
WASHINGTON (AP) — The government plans to begin taking the temperatures of travelers from West Africa arriving at five U.S.
September 29, 2014
Desperate that his patients were dying from Ebola and running out of options, Dr. Gobee Logan from Liberia decided to
September 28, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - TFriday, President Obama addressed the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, defining it as a “national security priority."...
July 31, 2014
NBC News - While health care workers in west Africa try to gain control of the worst outbreak of ebola…
July 28, 2014
NBC News -- An American doctor and an aid worker working for two charitable groups fighting Ebola in Liberia have…