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How To Navigate The Pirate-Infested Gulf Of Aden
Worldcrunch.com / LE TEMPS SUEZ CANAL — In Port Said, Egypt, at the mouth of the Suez Canal, three private guards, one from Romania and two from Ukraine, board the Monte Rosa, a 20,000-ton Swiss...
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Good Ol’ Boy At Apple, Tim Cook’s Unique Path To CEO With A Conscience
Worldcrunch.com / THE WASHINGTON POST ROBERTSDALE — There are few clues that this is the home town of Apple chief executive Tim Cook, the place where he said his “most improbable journey” began and...
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Migrant Purgatory, Trapped In A Libyan Detention Center
Worldcrunch.com / LA STAMPA GASR GARABULLI — Migrant #322 slowly lifts his head and opens his eyes. The long shadow of the sun, punctuated by the jail’s metal bars, bathes the cement walls as the blue...
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Two Decades In The Making, Egypt’s Big Desalination Breakthrough
Worldcrunch.com / MADA MASR ALEXANDRIA — Leaving Atlanta in 1997, using her last dollars before the long trip home, Mona Naim picked up a book called Standard Handbook of Hazardous Waste Treatment and...
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Rude Awakening, When A Young American Woman Moves To Morocco
Worldcrunch.com / RUE AMELOT MARRAKESH — I remember a friend saying that gay rights is the issue of our generation, and while I agreed at the time, I can't help but feel that he wasn't entirely...
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Journey To An Ancient Monastery Deep In Egypt’s Besieged Sinai
Worldcrunch.com / LA STAMPA SINAI — The intercity bus that left from Cairo gradually empties at every stop on the way, as soldiers and tourism workers return home from their work in the capital. The...
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Egypt’s Shady World Of Amateur Porn Videos
Worldcrunch.com / MADA MASR Egypt ranks second worldwide in terms of the volume of pornography shared online, coming only after Iraq, according to the global statistical study “Who are the largest...
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Trafficking Dreams And Death, The Migrant Smugglers Of Libya
Worldcrunch.com / LA STAMPA SABRATHA — It's just past 10 p.m., and Omar, Mohammed and Isa are driving on the Mediterranean coast highway that links the Libyan capital of Tripoli with the Tunisian...
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A Libyan Family’s Quiet Resilience
Worldcrunch.com / LE MONDE MISRATA — The weather is fair as the moon hangs over a family home in Misrata. The al-Rufai's tiled courtyard, with its table and plastic chairs, and a vine shoot wrapped...
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Two Tunisian Women, Emancipated But Divided Over Religion
Worldcrunch.com / LA STAMPA TUNIS — Tunisia is a nation of young women. They write books, tell stories, teach in universities, write on blogs, organize activist networks, protest on the streets, and...
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Tunisia’s Ennahda Movement Redefines Muslim Democracy
Worldcrunch.com / LE MONDE TUNIS — In the days after the fall of the regime of Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in January 2011, the long-exiled founder of the Ennahda movement Rached...
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Why So Many Fish Are Dying In The Nile
Worldcrunch.com / MADA MASR FUWWAH — Stepping off a small boat as it docks along the Nile, Ahmed Khaled, a 22-year-old fisherman, looks dissatisfied. For the fifth time in just three weeks, he had...
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Al-Qaeda’s New Strategy To Eclipse ISIS Begins In Egypt
Worldcrunch.com / LA STAMPA -Analysis- BEIRUT — Al-Qaeda is launching a new bid to dethrone the Islamic State (ISIS) as the world’s pre-eminent jihadist terrorist group, and Egypt is the primary...
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African Startup Hub, Rwanda Attracts Ubers And Universities
Worldcrunch.com / LE MONDE KIGALI — About a 20-minute drive from the Rwandan capital of Kigali, there’s a barren road that leads to a construction site amid cornfields and banana trees. A single blue...
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Mauritania, The Last Stronghold Of Slavery
Worldcrunch.com / LA STAMPA NOUAKCHOTT — Mauritania is one of the few countries, perhaps the only one, where slavery still exists. Not slavery in the more modern sense of the word, implying some form...
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Swipe, Pray, Fast: The 5 Top Apps For Ramadan 2016
Worldcrunch.com / TAKE 5 Ramadan is a sacred month of prayer and fasting from dawn to dusk observed by Muslims around the world. But the holy month, which this year runs from June 6 to July 5, comes...
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The Terrorist Attack Kenya Doesn’t Want You To Know About
Worldcrunch.com / LE MONDE NAIROBI — Despite the cloudy sky, Wilson, 50, is wearing sunglasses and a baseball cap. His small cellphone never stops ringing. He cracks a few jokes, plays a little...
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A Congolese Man Gives Midwives A Run For Their Money
Worldcrunch.com / SYFIA INTERNATIONAL DOUMANGA — In this western village in the Republic of Congo, the local health center lacks both material and human resources. As a result, the only male nurse in...
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State Of Denial: Malawi's Tobacco Farming Addiction
Worldcrunch.com / SUDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG MALAWI — The home of James Mwale smells like a freshly opened pack of cigarettes. It's not much bigger than one either: It has about 5 square meters of floor...
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Can Chinese Solar Panels Keep The Lights On In Ghana?
Worldcrunch.com / LA STAMPA ACCRA — It's a hot and humid night in this capital city and a long line waits at the entrance of Papaye, Ghana's top fast-food chain and a symbol of the country's...
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