West Africa

Saturday April 26, 2014

African Food With A Twist: Dakar Pop-Up Restaurant Raises The Bar

Magida Safaoui, right, and an assistant plate tomatoes at a Trio Toques event in April. Safaoui helps out the three chefs who run the restaurant. Doreen Akiyo Yomoah for NPR hide caption

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Doreen Akiyo Yomoah for NPR

The Salt

African Food With A Twist: Dakar Pop-Up Restaurant Raises The Bar

April 26, 2014 • Three chefs in Senegal are helping put West Africa on the culinary map. They move their monthly pop-up restaurant around Dakar, introducing diners to new takes on familiar ingredients like the peanut.

Monday March 24, 2014

Ebola Breaks Out In West Africa For The First Time

The fatality rate in an Ebola outbreak ranges from 25 percent to 90 percent, depending on the particular strain of the virus involved. Cynthia Goldsmith/ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention hide caption

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Cynthia Goldsmith/ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Shots - Health News

Ebola Breaks Out In West Africa For The First Time

March 24, 2014 • A deadly form of Ebola has killed 59 people in Guinea. Early reports suggested the disease had spread to other neighboring countries. But none of the more far-flung cases have been confirmed.

Thursday February 7, 2013

NPR Public Editor

When Reporting From An African 'Village' Is Imperial Arrogance – And Not

February 7, 2013 • NPR has been covering the recent conflict in Mali from on the ground. But when a listener heard several places being called "villages," she asked why the images of primitiveness. NPR's West Africa correspondent answered.