By Taylor Luck, Monday, April 22, 4:19 AM

MAFRAQ, JORDAN — After months of shrugging off glares, Abdullah Saad could no longer ignore the feeling that he was unwelcome in this country. The message was spray-painted in red across the side of his home for any passerby to see: Go back to Syria.

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Just over one year after Captain Amadou Sanogo staged a military coup to take leadership of the vast West African nation of Mali, he has granted an interview to Der Spiegel magazine. Sanogo’s year in office has not gone very well: rebels in the country’s north, some of them Islamists and some of them ethnic Tuareg who had long sought their own country, took advantage of the chaos to seize entire regions of the country. French troops were able to expel the rebels, but Sanogo is under strong international pressure to allow democracy to return to Mali.

The number of Syrian refugees has grown significantly in the winter months. The 1,000-acre Zaatari refugee camp in northern Jordan was home to more than 146,000 individuals as of March 4. The number of shelters grew from 2,400 in September to more than 18,000 on Feb. 3.

Link: In Jordan, an expanding refugee camp

BANITA, Kenya — The first time Francis Mwangi’s Kikuyu family tried to bury him beneath the green grasses of Kenya’s Rift Valley, they were ambushed by Kalenjin men who claimed the land as theirs. Fighting broke out, and the body was kept in the police station overnight. In the end, it took dozens of policemen and a grave filled with cement to secure Mwangi’s final resting place last year near the village of Banita.

By Jenna Johnson, Updated: Thursday, February 14, 6:45 AM

ANTAKYA, TURKEY — At a new school for teenage Syrian refugees, in a still-under-construction apartment building near a Turkish hospital, psychology has been added to the standard Syrian curriculum. Turkish is now required, too. But the course about the legacy of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has been dropped.

LETPADAUNG TAUNG, Burma — Last February, a local government agent approached village headman U Thein with an offer: $600 to “lease” a large tract of communal rice paddies that needed to be cleared for an army-owned company and its Chinese partner to expand a copper mine in this sun-baked swath of northern Burma.

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KILIS, TURKEY — Hundreds of thousands of Syrians have fled the country in the past six months, but millions remain in war-worn communities where food, clean water and heating fuel have become scarce.

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ANTAKYA, Turkey — Hiba Alhaji’s flight from Syria was sparked when she was summoned for interrogation after she encouraged her university students to join protests against the government. Her inquisitors never realized the trunk of her car parked outside was full of guns she was running for the rebels.

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by Simon Denyer,

BANSWARA, India – Stung by the realization that it faced a child malnutrition crisis worse than in most African countries, India is finally waking to the scale of the problem.

Progress is still slow and political will still patchy, but there are signs that a new approach to fighting malnutrition is just beginning to reap dividends.