Reports

KIRA ZALAN The chatter of 16 women rang through a typical hotel conference room, almost drowning out Mekka Abdelgabar’s call to end the ongoing exercise. For the past hour, using a speed-dating setup, the women have been…

CASSANDRA VINOGRAD BENTIU, South Sudan — For five months, Nyabany and her five children had avoided the gunfire. But they were dying all the same. Read more on Pulitzer Center

MARTIN FLETCHER Stripped of their land and forced to watch their house torched, Kent-born Ben Freeth and his family have seen first-hand the violence and unpredictability of Zimbabwe’s authoritarian regime. Yet after beatings, torture and court battles,…

ARIEL ZIRULNICK MANDERA and GARISSA, Kenya — Teaching finally resumed last week at Garissa University, the northeast Kenyan college where al-Shabab killed 148 people last April. The attack by the al Qaeda-linked group, which over the last five…

ARIEL ZIRULNICK MANDERA, Kenya — A growing number of Kenya’s ethnic Somalis have vanished or turned up dead after being detained amid a crackdown by security forces on Islamist extremists. Read the full article.

JAE LEE Francis Kyakulaga, a district sanitation manager, and I had finished eating a meal at the ground floor restaurant of the Mwaana Hotel on the Trans-African Highway in Uganda. During the meal, we noticed an increasing…

Lake Victoria is the second-largest freshwater lake in the world, and it is at Agnes Nansubuga's front door in the village of Walumbe. So naturally, that's where she used to fetch her drinking water. Unfortunately, it…

ROGER THUROW ABOKE, Uganda — At St. Mary’s secondary school for girls, lessons literally grow on the trees. Philosophical statements and encouraging aphorisms, painted in white letters on green pieces of sheet metal, hang on the trees that…

Published November 10, 2012 Samuel Loewenberg KAKUMA, Kenya —The Kakuma refugee camp is 60 miles from Sudanese border, in the uppermost reaches of the arid Turkana region of Kenya. It was opened in 1992 to house the 16,000…

CÉDRIC GERBEHAYE, FOR THE PULITZER CENTER The Khartoum regime continues to wage a war against the rebels of South Kordofan and the Blue Nile in Sudan. Humanitarian aid agencies and journalists have found that access to these…