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Rwanda’s laptop revolution
Rwanda has a plan to prevent any return to the genocide of 1994: connect 100 000 children to the outside world with their own laptops.
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Years of conflict etched on a Congo village chief’s face
He has lost his family and only the UN guards at his camp now keep him safe. But when they go, what will happen?
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The rise of ‘the African Taliban’
Somalis say that, beyond the facade of harsh and rigid piety, the group robs and kills and sexually assaults with impunity.
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Why is China so terrified of dissent?
There is an expression in China: "Kill the chicken before the monkey." Target the weak and vulnerable, it means, to frighten the strong and many.
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Violence and fear: Welcome to the Horn of Africa
In Yemen, Somalia and beyond, the lawless, strife-torn region has provided disturbing evidence that its myriad problems cannot be ignored.
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Same old mistakes in new Afghan war
Soviet military archives show latest international intervention in Afghanistan has learnt nothing from the war two decades ago.
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Barack Obama’s Nobel prize: Why now?
Giving US President Barack Obama the Nobel Peace Prize so early in his presidency could hinder rather than help his diplomatic efforts.
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Drought drives Kenya’s herders to the brink
With liHawa Hassan comes leading three donkeys, accompanied by two female relatives and a handful of the family’s smallest children.
War-torn lounging in Gaza
On its coast, Gaza’s limitations are marked by a different fence where the bars are Israeli gunboats.
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Secret of the ‘lost’ tribe that wasn’t
Amazing pictures showed a handful of warriors from an ”undiscovered tribe” on the Brazilian-Peruvian border. Or so the story was told and sold.
