International rules bar the sale, which experts fear would encourage poaching. But with elephant populations and attacks on ...

LUBERO, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO — Construction is booming in Kirumba, where more than 30 buildings are under construction, and brick houses are springing up like mushrooms. The boom is in stark ...

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 ...

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 ...

HARARE, ZIMBABWE — With the price of gold up globally, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe in April put the gold coins it stopped minting a year earlier back on the market. But interested investors had to ...

The Dharavi neighborhood in Mumbai — Asia’s largest informal settlement — is located on prime real estate. Many people who live there now are under pressure to relocate to an area near a toxic ...

MBARARA, UGANDA — The first time Robert stepped onto the campus of Mbarara University of Science and Technology, he believed he was entering the halls of a prestigious institution that had trained ...

HARARE, ZIMBABWE — It’s been months since lecturers at the University of Zimbabwe, the country’s oldest and most prestigious university, stepped aside. Their salaries, eroded by inflation and currency ...

KAMPALA, UGANDA — Uganda’s ruling party, the National Resistance Movement, is attempting to block potential political candidates from running as independents. In April, it introduced a requirement for ...

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 ...

EAST JAKARTA, INDONESIA — Wiyanti was crushed by exhaustion after spending noon until midnight trying to purge water and mud from her family’s home. It still wasn’t completely clean. Floodwaters more ...

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 ...