Lulu DK fabrics founder and designer, Lulu deKwiatkowski may be best known for her bold colors and hand printed geometric designs, but she's also a natural born wanderer.
African people have a right to development. But the Serengeti is nature's equivalent to Chartres Cathedral. And if it is not possible to preserve the world's greatest park, then what, ultimately, will remain?
As long as a ransom is paid and impoverished Somalia is in shambles, combating piracy is a matter of hit and miss and depends on fire power of vessels or foreign navies rushing to their protection.
In addition to noting their own pain and anger, victims today praised a federal court judge and the United States justice system for bringing Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani to justice in a public courtroom following a fair trial.
This post has nothing to do with taking your clothes off. But it is very revealing. Confirmation that the world is flat (to quote Thomas Friedman) ...
Here at Black Tomato we've coined the phrase 'slowtopia travel' for the trips that remove you far from the immediacy of the modern world. We like to t...
The Ghailani case is significant because it's been viewed as a test of whether the civilian court system can handle the cases of another 35 Guantanamo Bay detainees slated for trial. I'd say that it just passed that test with flying colors.
Like subway posters or highway billboards, wall murals have long been popular as a form of cheap advertising in Tanzania for such products as Coca-Col...
The election of Salum Khalfani Bar'wani, Tanzania's first albino MP, is being hailed as a breakthrough for those affected by the genetic condition in ...
The migration of two million herbivores crossing the Serengeti-Mara border is a natural wonder. But it could be jeopardized if the Tanzanian government builds a proposed highway through it.
Childbirth was easier. We haven't showered in days. It's well below freezing, and the air is so thin that we have to stop every few steps to breathe. I've never been more tired. I must be crazy. This is the vacation of a lifetime.
ARUSHA, Tanzania — Rwanda's top prosecutor wants an American professor to appear in a Rwandan court on charges of genocide denial. Martin Ngoga...
A Kenyan man has been sentenced to a total of 17 years in prison for trying to sell an albino man to witchdoctors in Tanzania, local media reported y...
What's most surprising about the Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani case is that, based on the government's opening arguments, it's not clear whether prosecutors have any direct evidence establishing that Ghailani intended to hurt anyone.
In the course of eight years, resilience and passion have made dreams come true, not only for my friends, but for those seeking medical care in rural Tanzania.
Shannon McNamara of Basking Ridge is surrounded by students in Tanzania last month. BERNARDS — Add the United Nations to the list of organiz...
Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani remains the only detainee from Guantanamo Bay to be brought to the United States. He's scheduled to go on trial starting this week in lower Manhattan.
Affluent Europeans and Americans who zip around their countries on massive, eight-lane superhighways were outraged recently when the impoverished nati...
In 2005, my family started a school lunch program in Tanzania after my father climbed to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro. Upon taking a tour of some local schools, he realized that the students in the region were not given a school lunch.
Could one health clinic provide care to over ten million residents throughout four different countries in one of the most rural regions of the world? Dr. Amy Lehman believes so.
Best known for his innovative, sometimes controversial structures, the award-winning architect David Adjaye has for the last 10 years been photographi...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - The three veterans from three different wars had only one good leg among them. But that didn't stop them from summiting Africa's...
A man has been sentenced death by hanging for killing a five-year-old albino girl in Tanzania by hacking off her legs with a machete and then drinking...
The many strands of conversation intertwine, politics, corruption, the need for education, empowerment of women and children. Discussing female genital mutilation in this environment has its hazards.
