KATHMANDU, NEPAL — Outside the imposing Supreme Court building, Bharati Sherpa draws a shaky breath. She went on a hunger strike because the man convicted of killing her husband — a former Nepali ...

OAXACA DE JUÁREZ, MEXICO — Dawn lights up shards of glass along the downtown streets of Oaxaca de Juárez — vestiges of the broken windows of cars that had been parked there during the night. One ...

A government mega-project could push the country’s big cats closer to extinction — an outcome that would have devastating ripple effects on the local ecosystem. TLACOLULA DE MATAMOROS, MEXICO — ...

GOMA, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO — At the end of September 2023, President Félix Tshisekedi called for withdrawal of a peacekeeping mission to Democratic Republic of Congo. Tshisekedi was speaking ...

VAVUNIYA, SRI LANKA — Chithra Selladorai believes in the magic of wearing fabric adorned with her crafted patterns. It’s part of what fascinates her about batik-making, a process of creating intricate ...

Fishermen bemoan dwindling catches as contamination by industrial waste and other pollutants raises concerns about the safety of food and drinking water. NORTON, ZIMBABWE — Paul Majoni stares at the ...

HARARE, ZIMBABWE — An enormous shopping mall sits along the Harare-Bulawayo highway. Before the mall opened in late 2013, the area was an open, green space with grass and tall reeds. It’s a wetland, ...

The strictest of the growing Apostolic Church sects in Zimbabwe require members to seek healing via prayer and faith and completely reject conventional medicine, and this trend has likely contributed ...

New mobile phone apps in Sri Lanka have expanded on-demand taxi services to three-wheelers. Drivers say the new technology has been great for business. COLOMBO, SRI LANKA ̶ Mohamed Anasdeen was a ...

KAMPALA, UGANDA — In July 2015, Uganda didn’t feel safe for Ariana Mutomi. It was just over a year after President Yoweri Museveni signed an anti-homosexuality bill into law. Although Uganda’s ...

DHAKA, BANGLADESH — Early this year, dozens of men stormed the gate of a safe house for third-gender people. Among the attackers were people who used to sympathize with the community, says Babuni, who ...

KAMPALA, UGANDA — Sangara Bahizire occasionally works as a French, Lingala and Swahili interpreter for the Ugandan Judiciary. Until 2013, Sangara had spent three years practicing as an attorney in ...