HARARE: Some time ago, the head of the United Nations refugee agency, Antonio Guterres, said of the Democratic Republic of Congo: "Nobody in the outside world feels threatened, and so the international community is not really paying (...)
As if the armed conflict between Afghan government forces supported by the American-led coalition and the Taliban were not enough, Afghanistan is faced with a crisis that it wishes it could call a success: the Big Return.
From Jalalabad to Herat (...)
MOGADISHU: Somalia's internal conflict is propelled by a combustible mix of religion, politics, and clan rivalry. Civilians are killed daily in Mogadishu, there are roadside bombs and mortar attacks, and politicians and journalists are targeted. (...)
Among the many humanitarian disasters produced by the civil war now raging in Iraq is one that is almost invisible. Only rarely do scenes of massive displacement of the civilian population make it onto our television screens, because, unlike bombs (...)