East Timor
More than a billion people across 60 nations are living in fragile or failing states, like Haiti, Bosnia, the DRC and East Timor. What is needed to stabilize these particular countries?
Special correspondent Kira Kay examines East Timor's ongoing effort to rebuild itself, 10 years after winning independence from Indonesia. The report is part of the Pulitzer Center on Crisis...
It was one of those bits of luck that you come to rely on from time to time as a reporter in the field: you take a chance on a questionable story element, travel a distance to cover it with pretty...
Eduardo Belo Soares showed me a photo of himself surrounded by rebel soldiers, taken on the eve of East Timor's vote for independence 10 years ago.
This project was produced in partnership with the Bureau for International Reporting.
Veterans, widows, children who never knew their fathers—all gathered on the red-earth hills overlooking the blue seas of the Wetar Straits.