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August 10, 2017 | Field Notes
Kenya: Watching Chinese TV on the Savannah
We traveled to Kajiado, Kenya, to find that China's effort to win African hearts and minds has been paying off.
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August 07, 2017 | Los Angeles Times
'China Has Conquered Kenya': Inside Beijing's New Strategy to Win African Hearts and Minds
Beijing has invested billions in “soft power” campaigns to convince the world that China is a cultural and political success story. Now it's backing it with digital infrastructure in Africa.
July 23, 2017 | NPR
World Faces Global Sand Shortage
Sand is the key ingredient that makes modern life possible. And we are starting to run out. Vince Beiser talks about the crisis with Morning Edition's David Greene.
July 13, 2017 | Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Pathway to Peril
Scientists worry the next devastating disease could be born where animals and humans mix in a Third World slum – then cross the globe. Zika may have been a preview.
June 27, 2017 | The New York Times
Can a Tech Start-Up Successfully Educate Children in Africa?
Bridge International Academies—a chain of inexpensive private schools—has plans to revolutionize education for poor children. But can its for-profit model work in the most impoverished places?
March 01, 2017 | The Guardian
He Who Controls the Sand: Kenya's Mining 'Mafias'
Rapid urbanization has made an ordinary commodity suddenly precious: sand. As cities devour concrete, glass and asphalt, illegal sand mining has sparked a global wave of gang violence.
January 13, 2017
Pulitzer Center Launches 'To End AIDS'
Pulitzer Center launches its newest e-book: To End Aids featuring stories, photographs and video by our grantees. Also included: a timeline, interactive maps, a glossary, and resources.
August 17, 2016 | Business Daily
Agency Bets on 141 Rest Hubs to Tame Truck Crashes in East Africa
The Northern Corridor is an economic artery for six East African Countries. Those countries have an ambitious plan to make it safer for truckers.
August 11, 2016 | Daily Nation (Kenya)
East Africa: Roadside Stations to Tame Truck Accidents on Northern Corridor
For long distance drivers on this crucial East African route, the journey on the Northern Corridor can be dangerous.
July 21, 2016 | PBS NewsHour
Why a Kenyan Island May Teach the World How to Beat AIDS
The July 20th, 2016 installment of the PBS NewsHour series "The End of AIDS?," focusing on the disease in Kenya's fishing industry.
July 17, 2016 | Pulitzer Center
Ending AIDS: Behind the Scenes
The "Ending AIDS" project covers efforts to end AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa and the United States. This slideshow takes a look at the people Jon Cohen met along the way and the places he visited.
June 06, 2016 | Daily Nation (Kenya)
It’s a Dog’s Life for Drivers on Africa's Highway of Corruption
Waiting for days for cargo, travelling day and night across the country, living in the truck, being harassed by corrupt officers, and never knowing where the next load might take you.
East Africa: Access to Water
In much of the developing world, women spend more time fetching water than any other activity in their day. For more than a billion people, the water they do get is unsafe.
Kenya and Uganda: From Displacement to Re-Settlement
For about 18 months, more than a half of million people from the Ugandan area have been displaced after post-election violence forced them from their homes.
Can Biotechnology Save Africa?
African farmers already struggle to grow sufficient maize, which is a thirsty, fertilizer-hungry crop. What will happen as the climate changes and the population grows?
Stalking a Wheat Killer
Ug99, a virulent fungal disease, could create a major food security crisis by attacking the world's second largest crop, wheat.
Water Wars: Ethiopia and Kenya
In Ethiopia and Kenya, dry seasons grow longer and tribal conflict over access to water is on the rise, exacerbated by the proliferation of arms from Somalia. With clean water access scarce, the burden of securing a daily water supply has become a daunting task.
Hope for Lwala
Seven years ago, Milton Ochieng' became the first person from his village in Kenya to receive a college scholarship in the United States. There was only one problem: His family could not afford the airfare. So neighbors in Lwala sold their cows, took out personal loans and raised nine hundred...
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December 23, 2012 | General news
2012: A Year in Photos
The Pulitzer Center staff share their favorite photos from 2012.
November 10, 2012 | General news
This Week in Review: Global Goods, Local Costs
This Week in Review: Global Goods, Local Costs
July 06, 2012 | General news, Project news, News Points
This Week in Review: Untold Truths
Pulitzer Center Executive Director Jon Sawyer highlights this week's reporting from the Ivory Coast, South Sudan and Burma.
June 11, 2012 | News Points
Kenya: Behind the Stories on Nairobi's Dandora Dump
Not all the stories that David Conrad and Micah Albert found in Nairobi's Dandora dump made it into print. Conrad reflects on the stories that still need to be told.
April 27, 2012 | General news
This Week in Review: Waste Land
Pulitzer Center Senior Editor Tom Hundley highlights this week's reporting on water and sanitation in Liberia and Kenya's mountainous dump site called Dandora, as well as our 2012 student fellows.
February 28, 2012
Social Media Week: Innovations in the Developing World
Competition organizers challenge entrepreneurs to create technology that solves communication, privacy, and infrastructure problems in the developing world.
November 10, 2011 | General news
Pulitzer Center Announces Journalists for Reproductive Health Reporting Collaboration
Four African journalists have been selected to participate in the Pulitzer Center's collaborative reproductive health-reporting project.
July 18, 2011 | General news
Maternal Health in Kenya: What Evidence Shows and Ways Forward
Too many of Kenya’s mothers are dying due to pregnancy complications. Public health officials and population studies experts convened to discuss Kenya's challenges, successes and ways forward.
November 25, 2009 | News Points
World Toilet Day is no joke
Peter Sawyer and Maura Youngman, Pulitzer Center
April 27, 2009 | News Points
Ethiopia: Water wars, or peace?
Jon Sawyer, Pulitzer Center
April 17, 2009 | News Points
Ethiopia: The Garden of Urine
Jon Sawyer, Pulitzer Center
March 27, 2009 | News Points
For women, girls and water, it's donkey's work
Jon Sawyer, Pulitzer Center
Two weeks of briefings and field interviews on water and sanitation, first in Istanbul at the World Water Forum and then in Ethiopia, leave three indelible impressions.