May 16, 2013 / Untold Stories
Matthieu Aikins
Pakistan's truck art is famously lavish. But what motivates truckers to spend thousands of dollars on decorations?
Image by Deanna Dent. Southern Province, Zambia, 2013.
May 15, 2013 /
Alexis Okeowo
China's investment in Zambia holds promise: billions of dollars and thousands of jobs. But after violent conflict between Zambian miners and their Chinese supervisors, does it also pose a threat?
May 15, 2013 / Untold Stories
Alexis Okeowo
Has Chinese investment helped or hurt Zambians? Or has it done both?
May 13, 2013 / Untold Stories
Fiona Lloyd-Davies
Control of Eastern Congo’s minerals has been a key driver in the fighting that has killed over 5 million people. A new project may have the answer – to produce conflict-free tin from a mine.
May 8, 2013
Anna Badkhen
The World is a Carpet, by Pulitzer Center grantee Anna Badkhen, is an unforgettable portrait of a place and a people shaped by centuries of art, trade, and war.
May 3, 2013
Tom Hundley
Tom Hundley shares this weeks reporting on the rare manuscripts smuggled from inside Timbuktu's hallowed libraries, child laborers in Burkina Faso and a conflict free tin mining initiative in the DRC...
May 2, 2013 / Al Jazeera
Fiona Lloyd-Davies
A Dutch royal has a plan to end the violence that 'conflict minerals' have caused in South Kivu. Will it work?
April 29, 2013
Amanda Ottaway
Nearly two dozen Campus Consortium student fellows undertake reporting around the globe in 2013.
April 28, 2013
Larry C. Price
In just a quarter century, one of the world's poorest countries has transformed itself into Africa's fourth-largest producer of gold. But at what cost to the children who labor in the mines?
April 28, 2013 / The Philadelphia Inquirer
Larry C. Price
On the rocky ground outside the Kollo gold mining village near the border between Burkina Faso and Ghana, about 100 people are working, 30 of them children.
April 24, 2013 / Financial Times
In an uncertain economic climate, this prosperous Surrey town 27 miles southwest of London shows that the impact of government welfare cuts is not shared equally across the nation.
April 24, 2013 / Untold Stories
Emily Cadman
The Financial Times explains how it crunched the numbers in its austerity study.
April 15, 2013 / The New York Times
Shiho Fukada
Shiho Fukada has been photographing the effects of the economic crisis in Japan, where notions of personal prosperity and lifetime employment have eroded.

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