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The Lament Of The Boko Haram 'Brides'
Salamatu Umar was abducted by Boko Haram in 2014, when she was just 15. She and five other girls were herded in the bush. She was forced to marry a Boko Haram fighter. She and another girl eventually...
They're Caught In A Crisis That Isn't Hitting The Headlines
Wide-eyed Sakina Muhammad, who's 2, sits on her mother, Habiba's lap, on a bed in the ICU. Sakina is stick thin, her body withered and emaciated. But she's one of the lucky ones — a malnourished...
Tens Of Thousands Displaced By Boko Haram In Nigeria
OFEIBEA QUIST-ARCTON Children are among the hardest hit by seven years of Boko Haram's violent insurgency in northeastern Nigeria. Doctors Without Borders warns acutely malnourished children risk...
In the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, even calm is deadly
EMILY HARRIS The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is relatively quiet right now. After several months of attacks and killings that started last October, Israeli officials say that wave of violence has...
Beyond Madaya, 1 in 3 Syrians Doesn't Have Adequate Access To Food
The village of Madaya, where civilians died of starvation during months of siege by government forces, isn't the only place in Syria where people can't get enough food. Read the full article here.
Yemen has a glimmer of hope amid war, malnutrition, malaria
MAANVI SINGH Fighters on both sides of the civil conflict in Yemen are enjoying a seven-day respite from months of violent conflict. And that cease-fire means it's a very busy week for health workers...
North Macedonia + 7 more
Migrants Hit A Roadblock On The Greece-Macedonia Border
JOANNA KAKISSIS Macedonia has introduced strict border controls, saying it's trying to separate economic migrants from refugees fleeing war. The result is thousands of asylum seekers who are now...
How the Red Cross Raised Half a Billion Dollars for Haiti and Built Six Homes
Even as the group has publicly celebrated its work, insider accounts detail a string of failures by Justin Elliott, ProPublica, and Laura Sullivan, NPR The neighborhood of Campeche sprawls up a steep...
Kenya + 1 more
How The World's Largest Refugee Camp Remade A Generation Of Somalis
The world's largest refugee camp is also a giant social experiment. Take hundreds of thousands of Somalis fleeing a war. Shelter them for 24 years in a camp in Kenya run by the United Nations. And...
Rescued From Boko Haram, How Can They Reclaim Their Lives?
How do you help a former captive reclaim her life? That's the question mental health professionals face as they treat more than 200 women and children freed from the Islamist extremist group Boko...
Türkiye + 1 more
Turkish Educator Pledges $10M To Set Up Universities For Syrian Refugees
Once a sleepy border town, Reyhanli, Turkey, is now bursting with Syrian refugees, many of them school-age. More than half a million Syrian refugee children are out of school, and the education...
How Did Ebola Volunteers Know Where To Go In Liberia? Crowdsourcing!
From more than 900 miles away, Kpetermeni Siakor helped get volunteers to the right neighborhoods in his native Liberia during the height of the Ebola epidemic. He did it with Ushahidi, crowdsourcing...
Polio's Surge In Pakistan: Are Parents Part Of The Problem?
by NURITH AIZENMAN What do the parents think? That's always a crucial question when it comes to vaccinating kids. And it's particularly important in Pakistan, which is one of the last places in the...
Escaping South Sudan's Violence Means Tolerating Hunger
Even in an undeveloped country like South Sudan, Ganyliel can feel like the middle of nowhere; a bunch of tiny islands surrounded by a gigantic swampy floodplain fed by the River Nile during rainy...
Lead Poisoning Nightmare In Nigeria May Be Easing
Children in northwestern Nigeria are no longer dying by the hundreds. That's the promising word from Mary Jean Brown, chief of the lead poisoning at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. ...
Why Is Guinea's Ebola Outbreak So Unusual?
Doctors Without Borders has called the current outbreak of the Ebola virus in Guinea "unprecedented" — not because of the number of victims (so far at least 78 have died) but because the disease has...
For Afghans in camps, a harsh life with no end in sight
The Nasaji Bagrami camp for internally displaced Afghans sits on the outskirts of Kabul, a vast expanse of crumbling mud structures with tarps and tent sheets for roofs. These structures look like...
Malawian farmers say adapt to climate change or die
Rain is so important in Malawi's agriculture-based economy that there are names for different kinds of it, from the brief bursts of early fall to heavier downpours called mvula yodzalira, literally...
Philippines + 2 more
Can The Philippines Save Itself From Typhoons?
With thousands of islands in the warm waters of the Pacific, the Philippines is destined to face the wrath of angry tropical storms year after year. So what can a poor, densely populated country do...