Major conflict could return to southern Sudan unless there is urgent international action to save the peace agreement that ended one of Africa's longest and deadliest wars.
Priyanka Boghani | Posted 03.18.2010 | New York
At the Bleecker Street gallery, the sight that greets you is a floor strewn with beaten straw mats and ragged blankets. This is the detritus of living through one of Africa's most treacherous wars.
Refugees International | Posted 03.18.2010 | World
By: Patrick Duplat, Advocate "When they realize you're a Mehsud, they treat you like a suicide bomber who's wearing an explosive jacket." -- A displ...
Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 09.19.2009 | World
This is going out to the end of a very long limb, but contrary to the rumblings in progressive think tanks, let's suggest that AFRICOM must be given a chance in eastern Congo.
Aldo Civico | Posted 08.27.2009 | World
Uprooted from their land and stripped of their rights as citizens, one wonders to whom these people belong, and what society they are a part of.
Hisham Wyne | Posted 08.22.2009 | World
It was the historic lack of government involvement and social alienation that allowed Islamic militants gain a foothold in the North-Western regions in the first place.
Nosheen Abbas | Posted 08.16.2009 | World
They can't even provide us a tent, how will they make our houses? What are we expected to go back to?
nytimes.com | Posted 07.19.2009 | World
Pakistan is experiencing its worst refugee crisis since partition from India in 1947, and while the world may be familiar with the tent camps that hav...
Cameron Sinclair | Posted 07.10.2009 | Green
We are hosting a complimentary challenge to Google's on the Open Architecture Network, the world's first open source community dedicated to improving living conditions through innovative and sustainable design.
Jim Luce | Posted 07.05.2009 | World
The Sri Lankan government has moved mountains to accommodate more than a quarter million displaced people since the war ended ten days ago. But they have many more to move.
Rani Singh | Posted 07.03.2009 | World
Pakistani media outlets are reporting that the anti-Taliban counter-offensive launched by the Pakistani army is largely over.
World Vision | Posted 06.11.2009 | World
There are just over 4,000 people currently living in Chota Lahore, the camp set up in Swabi. The majority of the refugees taking shelter at the camp are women and children.
Chris Albin-Lackey | Posted 01.29.2009 | World
US policy not only has displayed a callous disregard for the basic human rights of Somalis, but it has failed on its own terms, breeding the very extremism it sought to eliminate.
Bukeni Waruzi | Posted 12.14.2008 | Politics
The people in eastern Congo are tired; we have been running for more than a decade now. We need to sit down, live in peace and raise our children.
Jeffrey Shaffer | Posted 11.13.2008 | Politics
If conditions in Iraq are now in good shape and the bad guys are on the run, why is the US allowing thousands of Iraqis to leave their country and re-settle here?
Luis Carlos Montalván | Posted 11.07.2008 | Politics
Iraq remains a powder keg. "The Surge" has done little to increase security, a state of civil war remains and regional conflict threatens greater problems for the future.
Caroline Gluck | Posted 03.18.2010 | World