Suffocating Congo’s War / Foreign Policy
The following is in response to a rebuttal by the Enough Project to my previous Foreign Policy story, “How Dodd-Frank Is Ruining Congo.” In a badly…
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How Dodd-Frank Is Failing Congo / Foreign Policy
Minerals are ruining lives. For several years now, in conversations about conflict and crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo, this has been a common refrain. About $24…
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Doctors Without Scruples / Foreign Policy
High-ranking al Qaeda official Abu Zubaydah had apparently, at one point in his 12-year imprisonment by the United States, refused to drink fluids — or at least “partially”…
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Why Are So Many Women Dying From Ebola? / Foreign Policy
When people started dying from Ebola in West Africa in March, Martha Anker, a former statistician in communicable disease surveillance and response at the World Health…
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Turn On, Retweet, Tune Out / Foreign Policy
Deborah Sanya, an 18-year-old Nigerian student who was kidnapped by Boko Haram in the mass raid on a school in Chibok back in mid-April, took a tremendous risk and bolted. Through…
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A Tidal Wave of Trauma / Foreign Policy
There are as many guises of trauma as there are Syrians who have experienced the war still ravaging their country. The dead-eyed mask is common, often in children. I saw it in a…
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How Rwandans Cope With the Horror of 1994 / The Atlantic
Consolee Nishimwe has an easy giggle and repeatedly uses certain phrases when we talk: “pain,” “painful,” “it wasn’t easy at all,” “I was only 14 years old.”…
Come for the Golden Pagodas, Stay for the War Crimes / Foreign Policy
Lush fans of palm frame the scene on the cover of this month’s Travel + Leisure magazine. A white-jacketed waiter sets a table for four on…
The Lost Girls / Foreign Policy
How Rwandans Cope With the Horror of 1994 / The Atlantic
Unarmed and Dangerous / Foreign Policy
A Syrian Refugee Wedding / The Nation
Trapped in Syria / Foreign Policy
Earlier this month, a doctor in northern Syria asked that a message be sent out to the world via Widney Brown, director of programs at Physicians…
#BringBackOurJournalists / Foreign Policy
There was never any cease-fire. War in Nigeria will not end anytime soon and the hundreds of schoolgirls from the northeastern town of Chibok kidnapped back…
Losing the Lonely War / Foreign Policy
Her hands showed every tendon, and her arms were like matchsticks. With a grayish tint to her face, Alma Abdulrahman, 27, spoke from a hospital bed…
Intimacy That Kills / Foreign Policy
According to Pakistani police, this is what happened on May 27, the day a dark-eyed, pregnant woman named Farzana Parveen died: About two dozen men used…