The problem of child soldiers Thousands of children have been used as soldiers in at least 18 countries around the world in the past two years. For the children who survive, the...
Eritrea’s opportunity The young nation of Eritrea is often referred to as the North Korea of Africa. The country has jailed thousands of political prisoners, eliminated...
Ethiopia’s new hope The East African nation of Ethiopia has spent much of the last three decades as an authoritarian one-party state. Political opponents of the...
South Sudan’s standoff When South Sudan became a country in 2011, there was a lot of optimism in a nation where people had endured decades of conflict to win independence...
Orphanage ‘tourism’ draws scrutiny To people in the U.S., an orphanage sounds like an outdated concept. Many of us only remember seeing them in movies like “Annie” Orphanages...
Europe’s immigration quagmire Back in 2015, the immigration crisis in Europe was in headlines worldwide. Since then the numbers of people crossing the by sea to the...
Project Exile: Ethiopia editor leaves after beatings "I received warnings before the second attack. They start to tell me that I'm still 'offending' them." Yetneberk Tadele almost left his home country...
Famine stalks South Sudan, Somalia The United Nations says that the world is facing the worst food crisis since World War II. Two of the hardest hit countries are in East Africa. In...
Documenting starvation in South Sudan "Something has to be done about this." One day in May of last year, Spanish photographer Albert Gonzalez Farran was taking pictures of...
Project Exile: Eritrean state media reporter turns critic "When prison became a synonym for Eritrea...you can only flee." In Eritrea, even being part of the East African nation's tame state media is no...
