KAMPALA, UGANDA – In an otherwise-empty hall, Hellen Baleke and Diana Turyanabo repeatedly hit a green punching bag with their fists, the sisters’ faces dripping with sweat. Baleke, 29, and Turyanabo, ...

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 ...

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 ...

HARARE, ZIMBABWE — Zimbabwe’s tobacco sector was once on the brink of collapse. Now, it’s booming again. Last year alone, it earned the country close to US$1 billion in revenue. But though the crop is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

CUAUHTÉMOC, MEXICO — Since the early 1980s, farmer Carlos Pérez has relied on a hail cannon to protect the apple orchards that have been in his family for three generations. Perched on a corrugated ...

ASHULIA, BANGLADESH — Lima Akter, 28, sold her television first. Then her phone, then her refrigerator. Now, she plans to sell her sewing machine. After working in the garment industry for 12 years, ...

A requirement for nursing students guarantees low pay, and a risk that their diplomas will be withheld. HARARE, ZIMBABWE and LUSAKA, ZAMBIA — At a nursing school in Zambia, many of the students aren’t ...

Providing sexual and gender minorities with secure places to live has become more fraught since the passage of an anti-homosexuality law. WAKISO, UGANDA — In 2021, John Grace’s father gave him an ...