March 28, 2013 /
GlobalPost
Jacob Kushner
In Kinshasa, Africa's fastest-growing city, a new haven for Congo's wealthy burdens some of its poor.
March 28, 2013 /
GlobalPost
Jacob Kushner
Subsistence mining is now Congo's largest employment sector—attracting adults and children alike. Chinese investment is driving its growth.
March 27, 2013 /
Foreign Policy
Yochi Dreazen
Amid the drug palaces of northern Mali, it's easy to see why this war will be hard to win.
March 26, 2013 /
Spiegel Online
Carl Gierstorfer
In India, where female fetuses are aborted by the thousands, violence percolates all through a woman's life. These images were taken in a Mumbai slum where oppression is pervasive.
March 25, 2013 /
Time
Jens Erik Gould, David Rochkind
For centuries, drumming has been the signature sound of celebration for the Garifuna, an Afro-Caribbean people on the Atlantic coast of Central America. Now this music has found an additional purpose...
March 25, 2013 /
Front Page Africa
Tecee Boley
Student politics in Liberia usually focus on better tuition and lower fees but one student leader insists that lack of clean water and sanitation facilities is the biggest problem students face.
March 25, 2013 /
The Atlantic
Yochi Dreazen
After a crackdown on music, Baba Salah wants to keep Islamists out of his hometown.
March 23, 2013 /
The Atlantic
Jenna Krajeski
They love George W. Bush for liberating them, but the region's relative stability might not last.
March 22, 2013 /
PDN Photo District News
Mustafah Abdulaziz
PDN marks World Water Day with images from Sierra Leone featured in Mustafah Abdulaziz‘s project “Water Is Gold.”
March 21, 2013 /
Bloggingheads.tv
Sarah Wildman
With President Obama on a visit to Israel, journalist Sarah Wildman discusses her reporting on the eternally divided city of Jerusalem.