Project Exile: Eritrean broadcaster waited five years to escape "I felt like I was waking up from a nightmare." Temesghen Debesai Temesghen Debesai decided to flee the East African nation of Eritrea in 2001....
Project Exile: Targeted for organizing Ethiopian journalists “The government was not happy to see that independent journalists wanted to raise their voices and support journalists in prison or simply defend...
Project Exile: On the run from Gambia’s security forces "When they arrested them, I was in hiding for five days." After graduating from high school in 2001, Buya Jammeh dreamed of becoming a journalist....
Ethiopian rebel commander criticizes U.S. support for regime "We're not going to sit down and die." Ethiopian rebel leader Berhanu Nega has tried democratic politics before. Now the former Bucknell University...
Boko Haram refugees struggle in Cameroon "Dozens of villages and hundreds of houses have been burned." The Nigerian terror group Boko Haram may be best known for kidnapping 276 schoolgirls...
Kenya errs in closing massive refugee camp, says ex-resident Kenya's effort to close the world's largest refugee camp after a quarter-century of operation would send hundreds of thousands of people back to...
Project Exile: Chadian blogger finds French asylum "It is a common local practice. You get offered a high position, a car, and you change sides." Chad's President Idriss Déby once said "a world...
Project Exile: Reporter leaves Gambia after torture in jail "The men continued to use heavy sticks to hit me. At some point, they also placed a plastic bag over my head and I felt like I was going to...
Explainer: Libya’s fractured politics Three governments means little governance News this week that a new United Nations-backed government had begun to establish itself in Libya has been...
In Burundi conflict, radio stations a point of contention The central African nation of Burundi has experienced unrest since the April announcement that President Pierre Nkurunziza was seeking a third,...
