Krista Larson, Author at Daily Hampshire Gazette

In this image made from video, unidentified soldiers patrol in a vehicle near the office of the president in the capital Conakry, Guinea Sunday, Sept. 5, 2021. Guinea's new military leaders sought to tighten their grip on power after overthrowing President Alpha Conde, warning local officials that refusing to appear at a meeting convened Monday would be considered an act of rebellion against the junta. (AP Photo)

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Guinea coup leaves junta in charge

by Boubacar Diallo Associated Press, and Krista Larson Associated PressSeptember 6, 2021

CONAKRY, Guinea — Guinea’s new military leaders sought to tighten their grip on power Monday after overthrowing President Alpha Conde, ordering the soldiers from his presidential guard to now join the junta forces and barring government officials from…

Malian police gather outside the Bourse du Travail where striking workers gathered to protest the arrest of President Bah N’Daw and Prime Minister Moctar Ouane by military personnel in Bamako, Mali, Tuesday.

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Mali coup leader retakes government control

by Baba Ahmed Associated Press, and Krista Larson Associated PressMay 25, 2021

FILE - In this Thursday Sept. 21, 2006, file photo, Mali's Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Moctar Ouane addresses the 61st session of the United Nations General Assembly at the United Nations headquarters. Mutinous soldiers arrested Mali's transitional President Bah N’Daw and Prime Minister Ouane, Monday, May 24, 2021, hours after a government reshuffle left out two members of the junta that seized power in a coup nine months earlier in the West African nation, the African Union said late in the day. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)

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Soldiers arrest Mali PM, president

by Baba Ahmed Associated Press, and Krista Larson Associated PressMay 24, 2021

Chad’s President Idriss Deby Itno, center-right, meets with French Defense Minister Herve Morin in N’Djamena, Chad, Feb. 6, 2008. Deby, who ruled the central African nation for more than three decades, was killed on the battlefield Tuesday.

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Chad’s president killed

by Edouard Takadji Associated Press, and Krista Larson Associated PressApril 20, 2021

In this Saturday, July 13, 2019 photo, health workers dressed in protective gear check on Ivette Adania, 24, a mother of four whose husband died of Ebola, at a treatment center in Beni, Congo. The World Health Organization has declared the Ebola outbreak an international emergency. More than 1,700 people in eastern Congo have died as the virus has spread in areas too dangerous for health teams to access. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

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Ebola vaccine hampered by deep distrust in eastern Congo

by Krista Larson Associated PressJuly 24, 2019

FILE - In this Sunday, Sept. 9, 2018 file photo, a health worker feeds a boy suspected of having the Ebola virus at an Ebola treatment centre in Beni, Eastern Congo. The World Health Organization says Ebola deaths in Congo's latest outbreak are expected to exceed 1,000 later on Friday, May 3, 2019. WHO's emergencies chief made the announcement at a news conference in Geneva. The Ebola outbreak that was declared in eastern Congo in August is already the second deadliest outbreak in...

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Ebola outbreak deaths top 1,000 in Congo amid clinic attacks

by Saleh Mwanamilongo Associated Press, and Krista Larson Associated PressMay 3, 2019

Aishat Alhaji , second, right, one of the kidnapped girls from the Government Girls Science and Technical College Dapchi who was freed, is photographed after her release, in Dapchi, Nigeria, Wednesday March. 21, 2018. Witnesses say Boko Haram militants have returned an unknown number of the 110 girls who were abducted from their Nigeria school a month ago. (AP Photo/Jossy Ola)

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Boko Haram returns Nigeria girls, warns not to put in school

by Haruna Umar Associated Press, and Krista Larson Associated PressMarch 21, 2018

A ferry bringing back people who fled arrives at the port in Banjul, Gambia as it reopens Saturday Jan. 21, 2017. life slowly returns to the Gambian capital as Gambia's defeated leader Yahya Jammeh announced early Saturday he has decided to relinquish power, after hours of last-ditch talks with regional leaders and the threat by a regional military force to make him leave.AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

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Ex-leader looted Gambia’s coffers

by Krista Larson Associated Press, and Carley Petesch Associated PressJanuary 22, 2017

British and Dutch tourists wait in the lobby of their hotel to be taken to Banjul Airport, in Gambia, Wednesday Jan. 18, 2017. Special flights were being organized Wednesday to evacuate British and other tourists from Gambia, where the threat of a regional military intervention loomed as President Yahya Jammeh's mandate expires on Thursday after he lost elections in December. On Tuesday, he declared a state of emergency before he is supposed to cede power to President-elect Adama Barrow. (AP Photo)

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West Africa bloc vows Gambia intervention to oust defeated president

by Babacar Dione Associated Press, and Krista Larson Associated PressJanuary 19, 2017

Residents of the Kisenso district of Kinshasa, Congo, gather at a water distribution point on Wednesday, July 20, 2016. Nearly 500,000 residents of the Kisenso neighborhood are targeted to be vaccinated as part of a campaign that was officially launched that day. Some 66,000 were vaccinated the next day, according to Dr. Valentin Ndaye. The area has seen more than 80 suspected cases including four deaths since the beginning of the epidemic. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

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UN bungles response to Africa’s yellow fever outbreak

by Maria Cheng Associated Press, and Krista Larson Associated PressAugust 4, 2016