The Central African nation was once ruled by both Britain and France, and now a teachers’ strike is helping expose Cameroon’s lingering divide.
Cameroon’s colonial past catches up with it
With reusable sanitary pads, Ugandan girls stay in school
About 30 percent of Ugandan girls from poor families miss school because they don’t have sanitary towels, but female students at one school are taking matters into their own hands.
US Syria strike sends strong message to North Korea
The guided-missile cruiser USS Philippine Sea (CG 58) launches a Tomahawk cruise missile, as seen from the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77), in the Gulf in this handout photograph taken and provided on September 23, 2014. The United States and Arab allies hit Islamic State (IS) targets including training camps, headquarters and weapon supplies in northern and eastern Syria in dozens of air and missile strikes on Tuesday, the U.S. military and a monitoring group said. REUTERS/Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Eric Garst/U.S. Navy/Handout (UNITED STATES - Tags: MILITARY CONFLICT) ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS PICTURE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. REUTERS IS UNABLE TO INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE AUTHENTICITY, CONTENT, LOCATION OR DATE OF THIS IMAGE. THIS PICTURE IS DISTRIBUTED EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY REUTERS, AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - RTR47CTA
The missile attacks against Syria demonstrate the US is willing to use military force if necessary, according to a senior Obama administration official.
Mission accomplished, but now what?
This satellite image released by the U.S. Department of Defense shows a damage assessment image of Shayrat air base in Syria, following U.S. Tomahawk Land Attack Missile strikes on Friday, April 7, 2017 from the USS Ross (DDG 71) and USS Porter (DDG 78), Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers. The United States blasted the air base with a barrage of cruise missiles on Friday, April 7, 2017 in fiery retaliation for this week's gruesome chemical weapons attack against civilians. (DigitalGlobe/U.S. Department of Defense via AP)
Surgical strikes have a spotty success record so we ask the experts whether the US assault on a Syrian military airfield last Tuesday could alter the course of the six-year-old Syrian conflict.
Is the Chesapeake Bay about to get ‘trashed and dirty’?
In this Dec. 20, 2013 picture, crew members Danny Benton, back left, and Ted Williams Daniels dump a dredge full of oysters onto the deck of the skipjack Hilda M. Willing in Tangier Sound near Deal Island, Md. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
President Donald Trump wants to cancel a decades-old program that’s improved water quality in the Chesapeake Bay, the largest estuary in the country, as he follows up on a campaign pledge to roll back water-quality regulations and cut EPA funds.
What Tomahawk ‘smart’ missiles are capable of
USS Florida launches a Tomahawk cruise missile during Giant Shadow in the waters off the coast of the Bahamas in this file photograph taken in 2003 and released to Reuters on March 19, 2011. U.S. and British ships and submarines launched missile strikes against Libya on March 19, officials said, as the West began a first phase of its military operations to force Muammar Gaddafi from power. REUTERS/U.S. Navy photo/Handout (UNITED STATES - Tags: MILITARY CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT POLITICS) FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS. THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. IT IS DISTRIBUTED, EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY REUTERS, AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS - RTR2K4HL
Here’s the rundown on Tomahawk missiles, which the US launched at a Syrian airbase in response to a suspected chemical attack that killed scores of Syrian civilians in the rebel-held town of Khan Sheikhun.
For refugees in US, this is the most essential skill of all
The United States admitted 84,995 refugees in the last fiscal year, and many of them will take advantage of an adult education program to learn the most basic skill they need to thrive in America.