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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 ...
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 ...
KATHMANDU, NEPAL — Two years ago, Magar’s husband joined the Russian military to fight in Ukraine, despite having no military experience. He used to work as a driver in Afghanistan and earn 50,000 ...
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 ...
NYAMAKATE, ZIMBABWE — El sol se está poniendo, pero los simulacros de tiro de rifle en este campamento oculto en la jungla aún no han terminado. El líder del simulacro vocifera órdenes. Los ...
WAKISO DISTRICT, UGANDA — Uganda’s Supreme Court ruled in January that prosecuting civilians in military courts is unconstitutional. When that happened, Ann was ecstatic. Her brother was approaching ...
One-third of the dialysis patients at the country’s National Kidney Center came for treatment after working abroad, often at jobs with grueling hours and few water or bathroom breaks in stifling heat.