Conflict
Duékoué, Ivory Coast saw some of the worst fighting of the civil war. Months later, officials are trying to rebuild and reconcile, but the residents of the town are reluctant.
As Sudan's army fights rebels in South Kordofan, an estimated 1 million civilians suffer daily from air strikes. The situation is becoming a humanitarian crisis to equal Darfur.
Ivory Coast produces 40 percent of the world's cocoa, but cocoa has been a bittersweet crop for the country.
The production of chocolate has long been linked with strife and bloodshed; the 2011 political fighting in the Ivory Coast was the latest chapter in cocoa's violent history.
Grantee Joshua Kucera talks about the new arms race among the five Caspian countries, the unprecedented militarization of this "sea of peace" and what's really behind it.
A refugee camp in South Sudan overflows with orphans fleeing bombs and starvation.
As the public health community shifts its focus to family planning, Mae Azango reminds us of the ongoing need for quality maternal care.
The 2010 Ivory Coast presidential election resulted in deep political divisions and five months of war. The political divisions remain, along with high unemployment and deepening frustration.
Tom Hundley highlights this week's reporting on a clarinetist in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega's free-market outlook, and Tariq Mir's dispatch about Salafism in Kashmir.
Oil in the Caspian Sea is making Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan rich. But with Iran and Russia on the sea, too, is it fueling a naval arms race as well?
In Moussadougou, a town of 30,000 where almost all residents are "foreigners" from other parts of Ivory Coast, disputes over land ownership divide the community.
Saudi Arabia exports Salafist Islam to divided Kashmir.
A year after the revolution that sparked the Arab Spring, what has become of the people, the politics and the economy of Tunisia?