Save The Children Pushes Congolese Teens To Keep Their Babies
Worldcrunch.com / SYFIA INTERNATIONAL GOMA — The girls, all of them under 18 and all pregnant, are taking the courtyard outside the Murara Hospital by storm. The mothers-to-be are here in the eastern...
View ArticleWhy Egypt Has Joined The Gulf Coalition In Yemen
Worldcrunch.com / MADA MASR CAIRO — Why is Egypt jumping into Yemen? Supporters of Egyptian military participation in the coalition fighting the Houthi rebels' takeover in Yemen say it's important to...
View ArticleWhy Nigeria's Rejection of Goodluck Jonathan Is a Lesson For Africa
Worldcrunch.com / LE MONDE -Editorial-PARIS — During the nail-biting four days of an election that many warned would be too close to call, Nigeria was in a collective state of high anxiety. Then, in a...
View ArticleCover Your Eyes, Yemen Is Dying
Worldcrunch.com / RADIKAL ISTANBUL — Now that Saudi Arabia's attack on Yemen has the support of Turkey and a large part of the international community, feel free to be deaf and blind to what will...
View ArticleMob-Run Fisheries And Pollution Imperil An Egyptian Lake
Worldcrunch.com / MADA MASR KAFR AL-SHEIKH — Sheikh Hamada sits by the lake to eat his lunch and remembers times gone by. "In the old days, the water was so clear," he recalls. "You could throw...
View ArticleSomalis Fear Scapegoating After Kenya University Attack
Worldcrunch.com / LE MONDE NAIROBI — When the Somalia-based terror group al-Shabaab slaughtered 148 people, including 142 students, in the Kenyan city of Garissa earlier this month, it resurrected bad...
View ArticleLibya, A Former Migrant Gold Mine Descends Into Chaos
Worldcrunch.com / LE MONDE GARABULLI — Two unfinished houses on the sand, facing a Mediterranean sea in shades of grey. So this is where they left from. According to various Libyan sources, the vessel...
View ArticleSmart Cities International: Autobahn 2.0, Dakar Hub, Speeding Songs
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View ArticleEgypt's Written Word, Increasingly In English
Worldcrunch.com / MADA MASR -Essay- CAIRO — I was born in Egypt, raised in Egypt, went to a school with a curriculum that was in both English and Arabic, and yet I consider English my first language...
View ArticleFrom Wheat To Pasta: A Very Italian Solution To Ethiopian Poverty
Worldcrunch.com / LA STAMPA OROMIA — Here's the vision: Ethiopia is on its way to becoming one of the world's major producers of spaghetti and other types of pasta, helping the country pull itself out...
View ArticleA New Secular Party Challenges State Islam In Egypt
Worldcrunch.com / MADA MASR CAIRO — A new political party, the Egyptian Secular Party (ESP), has been proposed to challenge what the founders see as the dominance of religious institutions over the...
View ArticleSmart Cities International: Cyber City Security, Russian Hub, Africa's NYC
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View ArticleThe Painful Lurch Toward The End Of Ebola In Guinea
Worldcrunch.com / LE MONDE FORÉCARIAH — Assény Touré’s tightly drawn features bear testament to his harrowing ordeal. In December, after he was diagnosed with Ebola, this taciturn 30-year-old was...
View ArticleAbortion Rights In Morocco - What Does Islam Say?
Worldcrunch.com / LE MONDE RABAT — Her voice is thick with emotion, the words flowing too fast. Aïcha (not her real name) finds it difficult to talk about herself, to tell her story. In 2012, the...
View ArticleSalafists In Tunisia Target Sufi, The Mystics Of Islam
Worldcrunch.com / L'OBS TUNIS — Finding the Saida Manoubia mausoleum is quite the challenge. The Sufi saint is hidden somewhere in the heights of Tunis, which prove impossible to navigate without the...
View ArticleThe Last Seven Jews Of Egypt
Worldcrunch.com / MADA MASR CAIRO — Egyptian Jews are having to face the ugly truth that their community appears bound to vanish. As recently as 1947, Egypt's Jewish community numbered up to 80,000....
View ArticleIn Gabon, Ecotourism Vs. Elephant Poachers
Worldcrunch.com / LE MONDE MINKEBE — Seen from the helicopter, the canopy of Minkébé National Park, in northern Gabon, looks like a green carpet that stretches to the horizon. The immobile uniformity...
View ArticleSustainable Tourism In Western Sahara Is Driven By The Wind
Worldcrunch.com / LA STAMPA DAKHLA — Located on the Atlantic coast, at the edge of the Sahara, it used to be called "Villa Cisneros" after the Spanish founded it in 1884. During the second half of the...
View ArticleEgypt's Sermonizing Media Appoints Itself Morality Police
Worldcrunch.com / MADA MASR -OpEd- CAIRO — Videos of a curly-haired woman pushing and yelling at a police officer at Cairo airport took social media by storm earlier this month. Yasmine al-Narsh, who...
View ArticleIn Burundi, Where Anti-Government Protests Are Tamed With Guns
Worldcrunch.com / LE MONDE BUJUMBURA — When she goes out alone of Burundi's capital, Valerie has started wearing trousers in case she has to run or is dragged to the ground. On this day, Bujumbura is...
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