By Abdi Latif Dahir NAIROBI — The family was startled awake by a loud bang in the middle of the night on the gate of their home on the outskirts of Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia. Police officers barged in without a warrant,…
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By Hannah Beech At night in the refugee camps, with only a thin tarpaulin wall as protection, Mohammed waits for the men to come and kill him. In less than a month, assassins have killed at least eight people in the Rohingya refugee…
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By Thomas Gibbons Neff KABUL — When the Taliban are in your bedroom and there’s a photograph of you on the wall holding an American flag, a rifle and dressed like a recruiting commercial for the Marines, you have to keep it together.…
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By Shihar Aneez COLOMBO– Unlike previous years, 64-year old Wijesiri* is not busy late in October this year. He loiters with his sarong and bear body in his home town area of Mullegama, a rural village in the border of Ambara-Monaragala…
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By Elise Blanchard QALA I NAW - Fahima has wept many times since her husband sold their two young daughters into marriage to survive the drought gripping western Afghanistan. Oblivious to the deal, six-year-old Faristeh and 18-month-old…
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By Sui Lee Wee Terrified farmers and families with children in Myanmar are fleeing into India as the military junta that seized power in a February coup continues to seek out and eliminate resistance along the country’s border. The…
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By Chandrasena Maliyadde A food shortage brewing for several weeks, coupled with a stagnant economy and indecision, has pushed Sri Lanka to the brink of a crippling crisis. It is ironic that Sri Lanka, which was known as the Granary of…
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By Michael Forsythe, Chris Buckley and Katie Benner China has allowed two American siblings who were barred from leaving the country for more than three years to return to the United States, after a Justice Department deal that cleared the…
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By Cora Engelbrecht and Sharif Hassan KABUL - Tightening the Taliban’s restrictions on women, the group’s new chancellor for Kabul University announced Monday (27) that women would be indefinitely barred from the institution either as…
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By Muktita Suhartono and Hannah Beech BANGKOK — In air heavy with monsoonal pressure and discontent, the riot police in Bangkok unleashed rubber bullets and tear gas. Tanat Thanakitamnuay, the scion of a real estate family, stood on a…
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