Mary Blankenship

Pipelines are seen at Zueitina oil terminal, in west of Benghazi, Libya February 3, 2020. Picture taken February 3, 2020. REUTERS/Esam Omran Al-Fetori

Africa in the news: Natural resource update, security updates, and COVID-19’s third wave in Africa

Mary Blankenship, Leo Holtz, and Tamara White

Saturday, July 17, 2021

A medical worker gives a dose of AstraZeneca's coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine to a man, at the Ruaraka Uhai Neema Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya, April 8, 2021. REUTERS/Baz Ratner

Africa in the news: COVID-19 spreads, Jacob Zuma sentenced, and climate change mitigation efforts enhanced

Mary Blankenship, Leo Holtz, and Tamara White

Saturday, July 10, 2021

King Mswati III of Swaziland waits to address attendees during the 70th session of the United Nations General Assembly at the U.N. headquarters in New York, September 29, 2015. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri

Africa in the news: Eswatini protests, upgrades to Rwanda’s health system, and energy and environment updates

Tamara White, Leo Holtz, and Mary Blankenship

Saturday, July 3, 2021

A solar panel is pictured on the roof of Jean-Noel Kouame's house, on the outer limits of the main city Abidjan's vast urban sprawl, Ivory Coast December 18, 2017. Picture taken December 18, 2017. REUTERS/Thierry Gouegnon

Africa in the news: A COVID-19 third wave, solar energy in Togo, and security updates

Leo Holtz, Mary Blankenship, and Tamara White

Saturday, June 26, 2021

FILE PHOTO: The Blue Nile River is seen as the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam reservoir fills near the Ethiopia-Sudan border, in this broad spectral image taken November 6, 2020. NASA/METI/AIST/Japan Space Systems, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo/File Photo

Africa in the news: COVID-19, Côte d’Ivoire, and energy updates

Tamara White, Leo Holtz, and Mary Blankenship

Saturday, June 19, 2021

Nairobi, Kenya -June 13th 2017: Electric engineers laying down Electric transmission lines in rural Kenya, Africa. This lines transmit high power electricity to different regions countrywide.

Figure of the week: Increasing access to electricity in sub-Saharan Africa

Mary Blankenship and Christina Golubski

Friday, June 18, 2021

A man reads a newspaper at a newsstand in Abuja, Nigeria June 5, 2021. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde

Africa in the news: Elephant overpopulation in Zimbabwe, famine in Tigray, and Twitter ban in Nigeria

Leo Holtz, Tamara White, and Mary Blankenship

Saturday, June 12, 2021

Melanie Bolanos, 9, holds a sign to protest hate crimes committed against Asian-American and Pacific Islander communities ahead of a car caravan in Koreatown on March 19, 2021 in Los Angeles.

Assessing the social and emotional costs of mass shootings with Twitter data

Mary Blankenship and Carol Graham

Wednesday, May 5, 2021

On the eve of the NYC budget decision -June 29, 2020-, hundreds of protesters gathered at Washington Square Park for a massive march to City Hall, marching in support of the #OccupyCityHall action for NYPD budget cuts, making a loud call for the defunding of the police force and invest in communities. This comes after NYC Mayor Bill De Blasio promised 'intense change' with police reform proposals, cutting at least 1 billion dollars from the NYPD budget. (Photo by Erik McGregor/Sipa USA)No Use UK. No Use Germany.

From the George Floyd moment to a Black Lives Matter movement, in tweets

Mary Blankenship and Richard V. Reeves

Friday, July 10, 2020

Person holding phone with Twitter app open at night

How misinformation spreads on Twitter

Mary Blankenship and Carol Graham

Monday, July 6, 2020