by Gia Gambino | 9 Oct 2020 | Africa, Health and Wellness, Hewitt, Youth Voices
Oil-rich Nigeria is Africa’s biggest economy but spends little on healthcare, with dire consequences for its teeming population. Its census could help. A health clinic in Nigeria in 2008 (Ton Koene / VWPics via AP Images) Nigeria’s health care system lacks the...
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by Nelson Graves | 31 Dec 2019 | African Leadership Academy, Indiana University, Miss Porter's School, News Decoder Updates
By Nelson Graves News-Decoder readers like stories about Africa, written by students. And while citizens in nearly 200 countries and territories turned to News-Decoder this past year, most readers live in the United States. Those are some of the conclusions that...
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by News Decoder | 23 Dec 2019 | Africa
By Jessica Moody Piracy tends to conjure up an image of Jack Sparrow with a bottle of rum, a parrot on his shoulder and an eye patch. Not so in West Africa, where pirates carry AK47 guns and rocket-propelled grenade launchers, terrorising sailors traversing the Gulf...
by Defne Egbo | 9 Feb 2018 | Americas, Discovery, Identity, Islam, Personal Reflections, School Year Abroad, Student Posts, Thacher School, United States, Youth Voices
Being biracial should be simple: you are composed of half of each parent’s race. But I’ve discovered the reality is anything but. A mixed race couple with their twin sons, Washington, DC, 11 June 2008. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) My parents are not of the...
by News Decoder | 25 Aug 2015 | Africa, Terrorism
Soldiers training before heading to the Somalia peacekeeping operation, 30 April 2012 (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) By Pascal Fletcher As the United Nations and African leaders try to push South Sudan’s civil war protagonists towards peace and Nigeria and its neighbors strive...
