VAVUNIYA, SRI LANKA — Chithra Selladorai believes in the magic of wearing fabric adorned with her crafted patterns. It’s part of what fascinates her about batik-making, a process of creating intricate ...

OAXACA DE JUÁREZ, MEXICO — Dawn lights up shards of glass along the downtown streets of Oaxaca de Juárez — vestiges of the broken windows of cars that had been parked there during the night. One ...

GOMA, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO — At the end of September 2023, President Félix Tshisekedi called for withdrawal of a peacekeeping mission to Democratic Republic of Congo. Tshisekedi was speaking ...

HARARE, ZIMBABWE — An enormous shopping mall sits along the Harare-Bulawayo highway. Before the mall opened in late 2013, the area was an open, green space with grass and tall reeds. It’s a wetland, ...

New mobile phone apps in Sri Lanka have expanded on-demand taxi services to three-wheelers. Drivers say the new technology has been great for business. COLOMBO, SRI LANKA ̶ Mohamed Anasdeen was a ...

Fishermen bemoan dwindling catches as contamination by industrial waste and other pollutants raises concerns about the safety of food and drinking water. NORTON, ZIMBABWE — Paul Majoni stares at the ...

DHAKA, BANGLADESH — Early this year, dozens of men stormed the gate of a safe house for third-gender people. Among the attackers were people who used to sympathize with the community, says Babuni, who ...

KAMPALA, UGANDA — Sangara Bahizire occasionally works as a French, Lingala and Swahili interpreter for the Ugandan Judiciary. Until 2013, Sangara had spent three years practicing as an attorney in ...

ASHULIA, BANGLADESH — Lima Akter, 28, sold her television first. Then her phone, then her refrigerator. Now, she plans to sell her sewing machine. After working in the garment industry for 12 years, ...

KAMPALA, UGANDA — In July 2015, Uganda didn’t feel safe for Ariana Mutomi. It was just over a year after President Yoweri Museveni signed an anti-homosexuality bill into law. Although Uganda’s ...

The strictest of the growing Apostolic Church sects in Zimbabwe require members to seek healing via prayer and faith and completely reject conventional medicine, and this trend has likely contributed ...

KATHMANDU, NEPAL — On Dec. 4, 2024, Tek Bahadur B.K. received a call from Greece informing him that his brother, Ganesh B.K., had died that morning. A few days later, the family huddled together in ...