Rakhine state: Hatred and despair in Myanmar’s restive region
Climbing a small, scrubby hill behind the little riverside town of Mrauk U, a dreamy landscape reveals itself, of centuries-old stupas wreathed in mist,...
Desertification: The people whose soil is turning to trash
From 1901 to 2005, more than 200 villages were believed to have been engulfed by desert in Nigeria’s Northern Region on account of climate...
Battling to save the world’s bananas
Visiting the Matanuska banana plantation is not easy these days. After a two-hour drive from the nearest city in northern Mozambique, visitors who make...
World powers jostle in Afghanistan’s new ‘Great Game’
Afghanistan’s strategic landscape is changing as regional powers forge links with the Taliban and vie to outdo each other in what’s being seen as...
Afrin’s Kurds: ‘We will never abandon our homes’
Six days ago, the Turkish military and allied Syrian rebel factions launched an air and ground offensive on the Kurdish-controlled border region of Afrin.
The...
