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50 years ago, the UK expelled Chagos Islanders. A court ruling may mean they can go home.Evicted to make way for a U.S. military base in the 1970s, residents of the Chagos Islands may soon return, though many critique the terms of the deal.
First LookSenegal votes as leaders work to cement majority, push reformsPeople in Senegal are voting in a parliamentary election that will decide whether the country’s president can carry out ambitious reforms, six months after he was elected on an anti-establishment platform.
Ahead of Tanzania’s election, Maasai fight to stay putWhen Tanzania’s government asked the Maasai to cast their ballots in the November election hundreds of miles from home, many rose up in protest.
How Trump’s abortion policies could be felt around the worldHealth practitioners in developing countries fear a reelected Donald Trump would cut U.S. funds, whatever their purpose, to any group promoting abortion.
How a Sudanese refugee in Uganda is keeping his homeland alive through foodA Sudanese refugee in Uganda is using food to preserve his community’s ties to the country it fled.
She fled war in Sudan. Now she grapples with returning.Sudan’s civil war has generated one of the world’s worst displacement crises. Here’s what that’s like for one family living through it.
‘They are our people’: How community kitchens are piecing Sudan back togetherCommunity-based aid groups are acting as pivotal first responders in the humanitarian crisis generated by Sudan’s civil war.
A journalist recounts his daughter’s miraculous birth in war-torn SudanA journalist recounts the experience of his daughter’s birth in Sudan amid the country’s brutal civil war.
First Look‘This is the worst food crisis in decades’: El Niño brings famine to southern AfricaEl Niño brought below-average rainfall to southern Africa, and warming temperatures worsened the situation. The United Nations’ food agency said droughts have caused the region’s worst hunger crisis in decades.
Senseless deaths mount in Congo. Dignified mourning helps salve the pain.As violence devastates eastern Congo, communities are coming together to mourn the dead and remember each life cut short by war.
First LookTwo American friends went to the Congo on vacation. Then they got swept up in a coup.Three American travelers, including two 21-year-olds from Utah, face the death penalty for participating in a failed coup against Congo’s president. One of the Americans is the son of the coup’s leader, who was killed during the assault.
East Africa’s mpox responders fight stigma with ‘love and dignity’Drawing on lessons from past epidemics like HIV and COVID-19, communities in East Africa are fighting stigma around mpox to stop the disease’s spread.
In the shadow of war, life begins anew in a Congolese maternity wardA maternity ward in eastern Congo is a testament to both the trauma of war and how, in spite of it, life carries stubbornly on.
First LookThink moving day is hard? How African vets brought a grumpy elephant to his new home.The last aging captive elephant in South Africa showed signs of deep unhappiness after his partner died in 2020. Veterinarian Amir Khalil and his team, experts at coaxing elephants, were called to move 4-ton Charley to a wild elephant reserve.
Ukraine’s Pokrovsk was about to fall to Russia 2 months ago. It’s hanging on.
Howard University hoped to make history. Now it’s ready for a different role.
Cover StoryWomen in construction find solidarity as ‘sisters in the brotherhood’
Worries rise over a Trump ‘warrior board’ to remove officers ‘unfit for leadership’
The Monitor's ViewA graceful renewal of Notre-Dame Cathedral
