South Sudan’s standoff [program] 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Orphanage ‘tourism’ draws scrutiny To people in the U.S., an orphanage sounds like an outdated concept.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...
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: Ethiopia state media reporter chased from country "They used to text they know what I am doing and it would only be a matter of time for me to face the consequences." Fasil Girma Aragaw got to know...
