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July 31, 2018 | NPR
Journalist Held Captive by Pirates Says Focus and Forgiveness Were Crucial
NPR interviews grantee Michael Scott Moore on his capture by Somali pirates.
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Africa
July 30, 2018 | The New York Times
Our Coming Climate Issue: Losing Earth
Losing Earth: The decade we almost stopped climate change. Online August 1.
July 28, 2018 | Yahoo News
Surviving al-Shabab: The Boy Who Escaped the World's Most Ruthless Terror Group
A former member of al-Shabab reflects on his time with the extremist group.
July 26, 2018 | Mongabay
The Fates of People and Gorillas Are Entangled in Rwanda
Worse droughts have caused serious water shortages, which impact both local farmers and mountain gorillas.
July 20, 2018 | BBC
Branded and Beaten: The Nigerian Children Accused of Witchcraft and Murder
Buried alive, poisoned, scarred by acid - these are just some of the fates that have befallen Nigerian children accused of witchcraft. This BBC feature examines the root causes of these attacks.
July 12, 2018 | News Deeply
Gambians Fight Chinese Fishmeal Factory as Fish Prices Soar, Stocks Fall
As foreign-owned fishmeal factories proliferate in West Africa to supply feed for overseas aquaculture operations, prices for a key staple of the local diet are skyrocketing.
July 12, 2018 | Circle of Blue
Cape Town’s Harrowing Journey to the Brink of Water Catastrophe
The city of 4 million people almost turned off its taps.
June 27, 2018 | Mongabay, Pacific Standard
Rwandan People and Mountain Gorillas Face Changing Climate Together
Climate change is reshaping relations between parks, people and the mountain gorillas of Rwanda. But more and deeper research is needed to determine likely long-term impacts.
June 26, 2018 | Science Magazine
The Places Where HIV Shows No Sign of Ending, and the Parts of the Human Brain That Are Bigger—In Bigger Brains
Science staff writer Jon Cohen joins podcast host Sarah Crespi to discuss how the fight against HIV/AIDS is evolving in three diverse locations.
June 21, 2018 | wired.co.uk
Why Silicon Valley's Money Can't Solve Africa's Tech Problems
Is Africa the next frontier for Silicon Valley? Despite all the fanfare and media coverage, the venture capital scene in Africa, particularly beyond South Africa, remains nascent.
June 20, 2018 | Associated Press
Detainees Held Without Charges Decry Emiratis’ Sexual Abuses
Hundreds of detainees without charges condemn sexual abuse from United Arab Emirates-controlled prisons in Yemen.
June 19, 2018 | World Politics Review
The ‘Myths and Lies’ Behind the U.S. Military’s Growing Presence in Africa
The Pentagon is subverting democratic processes in partner countries in Africa, undermining years of diplomatic engagement.
Disaster Science During the Ebola Outbreak
Research during a disaster can seem frivolous when there aren’t enough resources to handle the immediate response. But in the Ebola outbreak it's become clear that data collection must happen now.
HIV’s Origins—and the Lessons for Today
A scientific detective story that crisscrosses the globe, tracing the origins of HIV and its lessons for today.
Central African Republic: Hidden Heart of Africa
The Central African Republic is one of the last truly wild places on earth, a sparsely populated country that until recently remained quietly anonymous. So why did it descend into chaos?
Ethiopia: Humankind's Origin and Survival
While paleontologists push the dates of our origins back in time, agricultural scientists are trying to ensure that humans last long into the future.
Saving Kenya’s Mothers
Kenya continues to lose 7,000 mothers to preventable deaths each year. If the solutions are known, why has there been so little progress in saving their lives?
Everyday Africa: Pulitzer Center Education Programming
The Pulitzer Center is proud to partner with the Everyday Africa initiative and its founders, and with students and educators across the globe, to expand the project's reach and educational potential.
Cervical Cancer in Uganda
In the U.S., the HPV vaccine and regular pap smears have almost stopped the pervasiveness of cervical cancer in its tracks. In Uganda, however, cervical cancer is the most fatal cancer for women.
Skin Bleaching in Ghana: Media and Cultural Impact
Jessica Edmond, Pulitzer Center student fellow from Southern Illinois University Carbondale, examines the effects of media that promote skin bleaching among women and children in Ghana.
When Militiamen Rule
Less than three years after independence, South Sudan collapsed into civil war. Thousands have died and famine looms on the horizon. Can rebel-leaders-turned-politicians lead the way to peace?
Tremors Below: Mining and Protest in the New South Africa
In South Africa's poorest mining communities, fury at the political class is mounting.
Black Gold in the Cradle of Mankind
Turkana in Kenya’s arid north is the most important place you’ve likely never heard of, quintessential to understanding mankind. Now, Turkana has oil. Is it a pending resource-curse catastrophe?
Less Is More in Niger
The rate of population growth exceeds economic growth in Niger where women have an average of seven children. Government officials hope family planning will become the best way forward.
January 03, 2012 | Meet the Journalist
Meet Kathryn Joyce: Adoption Boom and Fraud in Ethiopia
Pulitzer Center grantee Kathryn Joyce traveled to Ethiopia to report on the sudden surge in international adoptions--the country's lucrative new "export industry."
November 17, 2011
More Than a Thousand Words: Fotoweek DC Journalists Talk Global Issues with Students
Washington area students--from three-year olds to university undergrads--learned about critical global issues from Pulitzer Center photojournalists.
October 27, 2011 | Meet the Journalist
William Wheeler: Libya
Reporting from Tripoli, Pulitzer Center grantee William Wheeler looks at Libya's attempt to transform itself into a stable, peaceful and democratic country.
May 11, 2010 | Student Reporting
Teenage Prostitution
Lauryn and Janay from School Without Walls in Washington, DC report on Teenage Prostitution in the US.
April 14, 2009 | Student Voices
Meet the Nepali Kamlaris: Former Indentured Servants
Former indentured servants share their experiences as "Kamlaris" and their hopes for the future.
December 03, 2015 | Project news
Nigerian Journalists Dig Deep Into Land and Property Rights
Recap of a two-day investigative journalism workshop held in Lagos for Nigerian journalists interested in covering land and property rights issues.
November 26, 2015 | Project news, Awards
Chris Arsenault Wins United Nations Foundation Gold Medal
The Thomson Reuters journalist wins the award for coverage of humanitarian and development aspects of the U.N. and U.N. agencies.
November 16, 2015 | General news, Project news
Greg Constantine's 'Nowhere People' Reveals Human Face of Statelessness
Photographer's new book brings together a decade of reporting on a growing global phenomenon that now affects more than 10 million people.
October 25, 2015 | General news, Project news
'Fatal Extraction' Selected as Finalist for Two Multimedia Awards
International media organizations nominate 'Fatal Extraction' for innovation in multimedia storytelling.
October 19, 2015 | General news, Project news
This Week: Student Fellows Weekend 2015
Our 2015 student fellows take on the world.
October 05, 2015 | General news, Project news
Lessons Learned from Ebola Epidemic Shared at Campus Consortium Symposium
Journalists and public health experts join Liberian deputy minister of health at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg to share stories of 'heroism and unimaginable loss' in West Africa.
September 16, 2015 | General news, Project news, Awards
'Seeds of Hope' Wins World International Humanitarian Platinum Award
Vote for the Fiona Lloyd-Davies documentary for the 2015 favorite in the World Humanitarian Awards.
September 09, 2015
How Africa's Journalists United for a Pioneering Collaboration
Reporters in one of the largest ever journalistic collaborations in Africa spent months unearthing court records and hushed-up government audits to tell human stories of mining's impacts in Africa.
September 02, 2015 | General news, Project news
Dirt Poor: Poverty and Water Sanitation
Too often, the people most affected by poor water sanitation are also those least able to address the issue. Industry, government, and entrenched poverty all stand in the way of access to clean water.
August 07, 2015 | Project news
Should You Run an NGO Like a Business?
Governments and aid organizations routinely earmark billions of dollars for overseas aid. Could "privatized" forms of aid prevent that money from going to waste?
July 24, 2015 | Project news
Pulitzer Center Journalists on Atlantic's 'Roughly 100 Fantastic Pieces of Journalism'
"Everyday Africa" and other Pulitzer Center grantees included in the Atlantic's Roughly Top 100 non-fiction pieces of 2014.
July 23, 2015 | Project news, Awards
Four Pulitzer Center Grantees Nominated for News and Documentary Emmy Awards
Honored multimedia projects range from an investigation into child labor in gold mining to an examination of reconciliation efforts between survivors and perpetrators of the Rwandan genocide.