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Niger River in Niamy, Niger.

Global Health

Niger's River Blindness Lesson

Posted date/time:February 18, 2025

Working data center.

Artificial Intelligence

AI’s Promise Comes With a Price

Posted date/time:February 11, 2025

Assafo, Ivory Coast - April 3, 2024: children feeding a crusher with ore to extract some grams of gold. In Ivory Coast, children from Burkina Faso often provide cheap manpower for local businessmen

Critical Minerals

There’s Mining, Then There’s Illegal Mining

Posted date/time:February 4, 2025

Sudanese Children suffering from malnutrition are treated at an MSF clinic in Metche Camp, Chad, near the Sudanese border, on April 6, 2024.

Humanitarian Assistance

An American Approach to Foreign Assistance

Posted date/time:January 28, 2025

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Global Health

Niger's River Blindness Lesson

Posted date/time:February 18, 2025

Niger River in Niamy, Niger.

Blog post
Artificial Intelligence

AI’s Promise Comes With a Price

Posted date/time:February 11, 2025

Working data center.

Blog post
Critical Minerals

There’s Mining, Then There’s Illegal Mining

Posted date/time:February 4, 2025

Assafo, Ivory Coast - April 3, 2024: children feeding a crusher with ore to extract some grams of gold. In Ivory Coast, children from Burkina Faso often provide cheap manpower for local businessmen

Blog post
Humanitarian Assistance

An American Approach to Foreign Assistance

Posted date/time:January 28, 2025

Sudanese Children suffering from malnutrition are treated at an MSF clinic in Metche Camp, Chad, near the Sudanese border, on April 6, 2024.

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Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding

Sudan Keeps Making History

Posted date/time:January 21, 2025

Juba, South Sudan, February 2017. People with yellow jerrycans waiting for water at a borehole site. Salesian camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs). Captured during civil war.

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Refugees and Forced Displacement

What Happens in Africa Stays in Africa (Mainly)

Posted date/time:January 14, 2025

African refugee women

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Refugees and Forced Displacement

A Stubborn Thing About Our 2024 Stubborn Things

Posted date/time:January 7, 2025

Refugees entering a refugee camp

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Global Governance

Haiti: Where the Descendants of Slaves Paid the Descendants of Slaveholders

Posted date/time:December 17, 2024

Image - Addressing Governance Challenges in Haiti

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Energy

Not-So-Renewable Energy in Zambia

Posted date/time:December 10, 2024

Concrete arch dam in the Kariba Gorge of the Zambezi river basin between Zambia and Zimbabwe. Dmitriy Kandinskiy/Shutterstock.

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Drugs

Colombia's Cocaine Moment of Truth

Posted date/time:December 3, 2024

Farm laborers weigh sacks of harvested coca leaves on a field in the Micay Canyon, southwestern Colombia, Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2024. The Micay Canyon connects the Andes Mountains and the Pacific Ocean, serving as a corridor for drug and weapons trafficking. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)