africa
Posted Feb 27, 2020, 6:31 pm
Dylan Smith
/TucsonSentinel.com
A "precision airstrike" this week killed the Al-Shabaab leader who planned an a January attack on a U.S. training base in which three Americans died, including Dustin Harrison of Tucson, officials said.... Read more»
Posted Jan 6, 2020, 1:40 pm
Dylan Smith
/TucsonSentinel.com
A Tucson man was among those killed in a weekend assault on a base in Africa — reportedly part of a terrorist response to the U.S. assassination of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad on Friday.... Read more»
Posted Jan 12, 2018, 1:22 pm
Dylan Smith
/TucsonSentinel.com
U.S. Sen. John McCain condemned President Trump's comments about immigrants from "shithole countries," saying "people have come to this country from everywhere, and people from everywhere have made America great."... Read more»
Posted Dec 14, 2016, 10:12 am
Alejandro Barahona
/Cronkite News
Thousands of new refugee children each year are putting a strain on Arizona's public schools, where the struggles of teaching and learning are weighted with hundreds of students who need to learn English — not only to succeed at school, but navigate a new country.... Read more»
Posted Apr 22, 2015, 5:34 pm
Samantha Incorvaia
/Cronkite News
After his teenage daughters visited Africa and Asia, the head of a Scottsdale-based venture capital firm decided to start offering affordable birth control in the U.S. and putting the proceeds toward reproductive health in the Third World.... Read more»
Updated Nov 20, 2014, 9:07 am
Sara Yasin
/GlobalPost
If global warning, drought and polar bear extinction weren't enough, it now looks like our inability to address climate change adequately might cost us one of the world's most pure, innocent, and wonderful pleasures: chocolate. ... Read more»
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Posted Oct 16, 2014, 10:26 am
Tristan McConnell
/GlobalPost
Switch off the television and read this instead.... Read more»
Posted Sep 12, 2014, 12:39 pm
Emmanuel D'Harcourt
/GlobalPost
The media's single-minded focus on treatment is obscuring the most important fact about this current Ebola epidemic. It can be contained and stopped, within months, with tools already at hand, and at a reasonable cost.
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Posted Aug 13, 2014, 10:22 am
Teresa Wiltz
/Stateline
Creating a new census category would have economic and political ramifications for Americans of Middle Eastern and North African descent.... Read more»
Posted Jan 10, 2014, 11:11 am
Murphy Woodhouse
/TucsonSentinel.com
In our immigration news roundup and border media criticism column, Sonoran Ramblings, we’re looking at a recent Slate piece on cocaine trafficking, a New York Times piece on artists living in the Texas-Mexico borderlands, and the recent protests of undocumented Africans living in Israel. ... Read more»
Posted Jan 6, 2014, 8:41 am
Tristan McConnell
/GlobalPost
GlobalPost's senior correspondent in East Africa decodes what you need to know about Africa's biggest problem of the moment.... Read more»
Posted Sep 10, 2013, 5:15 pm
Sophia Solis
/Cronkite News Service
They may be small, slow and cute for now, but within a few weeks the baby Nile crocodiles that fit in Russ Johnson’s hands will be downright dangerous.... Read more»
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Posted Jul 9, 2013, 4:46 pm
John C. Scott Show
Interviews with Prof. Stephen Zunes, developer Richard Studwell, Northern Arizona reporter Jeff Demand, and Tucsoncitizen.com's Mark B. Evans.... Read more»
Posted May 20, 2013, 5:49 pm
Samantha Stainburn
/Global Post
An Australian anthropologist plans to lead an expedition to the Wessel Islands off the coast of northern Australia in July to excavate a site where five ancient African coins were found.... Read more»
Posted Mar 12, 2013, 5:56 pm
Jason Berry
/GlobalPost
The reality of the global church is much larger than concerns bearing down on Princes of the Church, or social forces driving polarization of the church in Western countries, such as the priest shortage, celibacy, women’s ordination and gay rights.... Read more»
Posted Feb 19, 2013, 9:59 am
Tristan McConnell
/GlobalPost
At $6,000, the Mobius could be a game-changer for businesses working on Africa’s rough roads.... Read more»