Bombs Over Cambodia
New information reveals that Cambodia was bombed far more heavily than previously believed
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The Found City
Kenya’s cosmopolitan city of refugees
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Re: AIDS/Africa
Dispatches from Lesotho, a small, landlocked state struggling with infections
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African Adventure
Curator Simon Njami on the enigmatic work of white South African artist Jane Alexander
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The Peace Wager
As the killing in Darfur continues, the question arises once more: why can no one stop it?
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The Lion in Winter
Zimbabwe’s greatest living musician in a minor key
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Kenyan sex worker Hawa Chelangat: still alive, still negative
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Water Torture
soweto—“Shoot the may-or, the may-or, the may-or! I shot the may-or, the may-or, the may-or!” Roughly 500 men, women, and children march down Rissik Street, through the business district of …
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Money for Nothing, a Reno For Free
cairo— In Khan al-Khalili bazaar, near the two-hundred-year-old al-Fishawi café where the Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz penned his magnificent sagas of Egyptian life, two tiny girls in ragged party dresses …
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A Ridiculously Brief History of Rwanda
Like all major events, there are both complex and over- simplified versions of the Rwanda genocide. While there were distinguishable groups called Hutu and Tutsi before the colonial era, these …
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