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Violence against journalists, long a threat and often a reality, has worsened as Uganda heads toward general elections in ...
In Uganda’s overcrowded camps, refugees survive on shrinking rations. But going home means walking back into war.
Global Press's Shifting Democracies reporting tracks rising authoritarianism and democratic change, revealing how global political systems are linked across borders. TikTok videos and promises of big ...
TikTok videos and promises of big paydays have lured Nepali men to Ukraine's front lines — but many haven't come home. Now, ...
JAKARTA, INDONESIA — A new bill in Parliament would widen the authority of the Indonesian Broadcasting Commission and increase its ability to censor content on digital platforms, including social ...
Village council elections, dominated by young muslims, reveal religious complexities. CHAMARIA, INDIA — It was village council election season in India’s northeastern state of Assam, and nearly 60,000 ...
MASINDI, UGANDA — Less than half a kilometer from Aliyo Sarile’s tobacco farm, the wild frontier of Budongo Forest rises, a wall of emerald canopy and untamed vegetation marking a boundary. Each dawn, ...
LUBERO, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO — Southern Lubero was once considered fertile territory — despite its poverty and political instability. Now, this onetime breadbasket faces famine, a brutal and ...
HARARE, ZIMBABWE — A political party card, not cash, got Alice Nasiyaya her first plot of land. In 2014, her brother-in-law tipped her off about a group that was distributing residential land in ...
Some subsistence farmers are down to one meal a day amid a one-two punch: a lack of rainfall, followed by the disappearance of regular food supplements due to shuttered US aid programs. HARARE, ...