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Harare spends 12 times its income raiding illegal street vendors. Local residents say the money would be better spent ...
An analysis by Harare Wetlands Trust, using field surveys and Google Earth imagery, found that wetlands across Harare ...
Christians say the dormant law, first passed in the 1970s, targets their faith. Those trying to revive it say it is essential ...
Violence against journalists, long a threat and often a reality, has worsened as Uganda heads toward general elections in ...
TikTok videos and promises of big paydays have lured Nepali men to Ukraine's front lines — but many haven't come home. Now, ...
ADJUMANI, UGANDA – Lindiro Jane has fled war twice. The first time was in 2016, when renewed violence in South Sudan pushed her, her husband and their six children across the border into Uganda’s ...
Village council elections, dominated by young muslims, reveal religious complexities. CHAMARIA, INDIA — It was village council election season in India’s northeastern state of Assam, and nearly 60,000 ...
KATHMANDU, NEPAL — In April, after more than eight years in the United States, Aashish Subedi was put on a plane and deported to Bhutan, his country of birth. But when he arrived, Bhutanese ...
MASINDI, UGANDA — Less than half a kilometer from Aliyo Sarile’s tobacco farm, the wild frontier of Budongo Forest rises, a wall of emerald canopy and untamed vegetation marking a boundary. Each dawn, ...
LUBERO, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO — Southern Lubero was once considered fertile territory — despite its poverty and political instability. Now, this onetime breadbasket faces famine, a brutal and ...
Some subsistence farmers are down to one meal a day amid a one-two punch: a lack of rainfall, followed by the disappearance of regular food supplements due to shuttered US aid programs. HARARE, ...