May 14, 2012 / The Globe and Mail

Nairobi’s Garbage Dump Pits Pickers Against Neighbors

David Conrad, Micah Albert
About 6,000 people have come to depend on the 30-acre Dandora dump for their livelihood and income. But their needs are at odds with nearby residents who want the toxic waste gone.
August 26, 2008 / The Globe and Mail

Military Moving in on Tamil Capital, Sri Lankan Officials Say

Jason Motlagh
For the first time in more than a decade, Sri Lankan government forces are deep inside the Tamil Tigers' northern stronghold and within striking distance of the Tamil capital, according to military...
July 19, 2008 / The Globe and Mail

Genocide in Darfur? What Genocide?

Heba Aly
In an upper-class neighbourhood of the Sudanese capital, three men sit on a rooftop patio, talking politics between spoonfuls of ice cream and sips of espresso. "I see the government as good -...
July 1, 2008 / The Globe and Mail

Canadian Languishes in Embassy in Sudan

Heba Aly
Abousfian Abdelrazik takes the picture frame into his hands. His eyes open wide. "Kouteyba," he says, gently, longingly, as he looks at the picture of the son he hasn't seen in five years.
July 27, 2007 / The Globe and Mail

Ethiopia Turns Its Critics into Untouchables

Nicholas Wadhams, Zoe Alsop
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA -- Dressed in a black Adidas track suit and seated amid a comfortable clutter of term papers and political science tomes in his modest office at Addis Ababa University, Prof.