When War and Weather Conspire / Foreign Policy
A swamp is a bad place to live in tents. Mud turns to rivulets or dirty streams when rains come, breeding mosquitoes and the diseases they…
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…
Cattle, murder, and rape: How one dead man means the life of a girl
It all began with a murder. And it ended with slavery, rape, and the destruction of a little girl’s life. In South Sudan, cattle is taken…
Breaking ‘bad habits’: The fate of girls in South Sudan
A colleague from CPJ asked if I would be interested in talking to his friend about a practice of the friend’s tribe in Eastern Equatoria, South…