National laws aimed at redressing colonial imbalances reserve retail sectors, like that of brickmaking, for locals. But ...

A 2018 survey from the Uganda Bureau of Statistics, the Office of the Prime Minister and the World Bank found “the ...

The efforts aim to stifle dissent across the region, despite various treaty protections of freedom of movement.

KATHMANDU, NEPAL — Babulal Tamang called his wife in April from a prison in Saudi Arabia with news that shook her to her core: He had been sentenced to death after a drug-trafficking conviction. The ...

MUMBAI, INDIA — Hindi is the most widely spoken language in India, with most of its speakers concentrated in the northern regions. But this year, states in southern and western India have consistently ...

A decision by the country’s highest court opens up nearshore waters to export-minded commercial trawlers, waters that had been reserved for the small-scale fishers who feed the nation. LA UNION, ...

HARARE, ZIMBABWE — In 2023, Peter, a truck driver, was approaching a border checkpoint between Zimbabwe and Mozambique. He had little reason to question what was in his truck’s sealed container — he’d ...

HARARE, ZIMBABWE — Blessing Mucharambei’s uncle was just having lunch when he stood up, then collapsed. “[He] started bleeding from the nose,” she says, “and died on the spot.” As far as his family ...

NIRJULI, INDIA — The mood inside Nirjuli Town Baptist Church one evening in late March was somber. Around 170 people, mostly young congregants from local churches, had gathered to rally against the ...

ADJUMANI, UGANDA – Lindiro Jane has fled war twice. The first time was in 2016, when renewed violence in South Sudan pushed her, her husband and their six children across the border into Uganda’s ...

DOMBOSHAVA, HARARE, ZIMBABWE — Primrose Garande’s ancestors relied on the fertile pastures here to graze their cattle, and he followed in their footsteps. Now, a Chinese-funded quarry operation ...

Proposals to send migrants to Uganda raise concerns about safety, legality and the true cost of outsourcing asylum. KAMPALA, UGANDA — Nal went to Europe in 2016, two years after Uganda enacted its ...