Creator
Glenn McKenzie
Suspicions drive polio-vaccine boycott in Nigeria
Isa Mohammed distrusts doctors, especially white foreign ones. His suspicions, he says, stem from a 1996 drug study by American pharmaceutical giant Pfizer in which his daughter,…
Two more Nigerian states boycott polio campaign
A boycott of the vaccine for polio spread to two more northern Nigerian Islamic states on Tuesday, United Nations Children’s Fund officials said, hampering a massive drive to…
Hungry masses storm Monrovian barricades
Desperate for food, tens of thousands of civilians broke through barricades on Monrovia’s front-line bridges on Friday, reuniting Liberia’s war-divided capital after 10 weeks of…
‘If we don’t get shot, we’ll die of hunger’
A ship stocked with food is waiting off Liberia’s coast and aid could start flowing into the starving capital within days if rebels withdraw from the city’s port as promised, a…
Nigeria prepares home in exile for Taylor
While Nigeria readies a jungle home in exile for warlord-president Charles Taylor, many inside and outside Taylor’s war-battered nation worry he will keep up trouble-making from…
Liberian prisoners tell of horror of Taylor’s regime
They staggered out of jail as scarred stick figures. A few slumped on the pavement in exhaustion — too ill to show any emotion about their newfound freedom. One prisoner was so…
Charles Taylor tries to negotiate his exit strategy
President Charles Taylor said he is ready to step down ”in a jiffy” — but only after an international stabilisation force arrives to ensure an orderly transition in this…
US eyes African oil interests
An upcoming African-American summit aims to bring black Americans and Africans together in building an oil industry that will one day replace the Mideast’s, former US Ambassador…