At some stage, both sides in Burundi’s increasingly bloody political crisis are likely to be sitting across the table from one another in Arusha, Tanzania,...
For the past three years, the war raging across Uganda’s northern border in South Sudan has been pushing its refugee-hosting abilities to breaking point. But...
Hours before an army general in Burundi announced he had relieved President Pierre Nkurunziza of his duties, a small group of experts were making predictions...
For Eritrean and Sudanese asylum-seekers facing deportation from Israel’s Holot detention centre, the future is bleak. Those who have gone before describe a hand-to-mouth existence...
Thousands of Burundians have fled their country, fearing it might descend into violence ahead of a presidential election scheduled for June. “Burundi is sitting on...
A recent public outcry in China, sparked by a damning documentary about air pollution, was based on well-founded fear: Of the 100 million people who...
Job-creation schemes are the traditional way to tackle the post-conflict problem of unemployed ex-fighters and to reduce the threat they can pose to peace and...
![[Liberia] Fighters loyal to former Liberian president Charles Taylor line up to surrender their weapons to UN peacekeepers at a disarmament camp in Ganta, Nimba county, September 2004.](http://assets.irinnews.org/s3fs-public/styles/responsive_medium/public/images/200492214.jpg?4igkN5ZpMjXTy5ljPoK7xaIYUV.I9GVH&itok=cGzdtpfj)