Less Trash, More Schools — One Plastic Brick at a Time

Plastic garbage collected by a women's group is being recycled into bricks and used to build schools in West Africa.
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A Brutal Disease Kills Monkeys. Flies Could Be Spreading It.

A downside of social living among monkeys and chimpanzees, a new study suggests, is being at greater risk of deadly disease.
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3 Teenage Migrants Are Charged in Malta With Hijacking Ship at Sea

The suspects, said to be a sociology major and two high school students, allegedly forced a small tanker that had rescued them and others off Libya to head for Europe.
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Laurent Gbagbo, Former Ivory Coast Leader, Acquitted of Crimes Against Humanity

Mr. Gbagbo is the first former head of state to be tried at the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
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Teaching Children Regardless of Grade

Educators in a remote valley in India devised a community approach to instructing students when teachers were sparse. It's catching on.
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African Officials Respond to France?s Restitution Report

Government officials from Senegal and the Ivory Coast ask for African treasures to be returned.
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A Taste of Ivory Coast in Brooklyn

Cheick Cisse, the owner of New Ivoire in Harlem, opened Paradis des Gouts hoping to share the food of his childhood with those outside his immigrant community.
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