Africa

Children line up in January 2012 to receive a meal at a food distribution center in Mogadishu for those displaced by the 2011 famine or war.

Hunger wars

Somalia | A new study shows Somalia’s recent famine killed more than a quarter-million people. Will Somali extremists continue to starve a generation of their own people?

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, damaged buildings wrecked by an Israeli airstrike are seen in Damascus, Syria.

Globe Trot: Israel targets Syrian weapons with dual airstrikes

International |  Israel, largely staying on the sidelines of Syria’s civil war, this weekend launched a pair of airstrikes,including an attack near a sprawling military…

PULLED: Two women discuss infidelity and condoms in the controversial ad.
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Staying on message

Kenya |  Kenyan churches successfully lobby to remove a U.S.-funded ad they say encourages adultery

GOOD NEWS: The soybean farm launched by Aslan in Mozambique.
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Model behavior

Wealth and Poverty |  In hard times it’s still possible to focus on human flourishing

LEADING CANDIDATE: Odinga at a campaign rally in Malini, Kenya
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Caught in the middle

Kenya |  It’s hard for the U.S. president to play neutral in Kenya’s upcoming election

A meteorite contrail is seen over a village near Chelyabinsk, Russia, on Friday.

Signs and Wonders: Meteorites, megachurches, blacklists, and chemical abortions

Newsworthy |  Close call. A meteorite that became a huge fireball streaked across Russia’s skies above the Ural Mountains early Friday morning. It exploded in the…

TEMPORARY SHELTER: Sudanese refugees at Jamam camp walk to get medical care
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War of northern aggression

Sudan |  It’s been almost two years since Sudan divided into two countries, but the problems of political Islam and ethnic cleansing won’t go away

African Christian surgeons and New York City firemen

African Christian surgeons and New York City firemen

Africa |  To end this tough year on a hopeful note: It’s just not true that we’re doomed to wallow in ineptitude. An article in The Atlantic spotlights the work of the…

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez (left) and Vice President Nicolas Maduro

Globe Trot: Chavez picks successor, U.S. doctor rescued in Afghanistan ...

International |  Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez admitted that his cancer has returned and designated Vice President Nicolas Maduro as heir to the socialist dictatorship he…

TERROR: The inside of St. Rita’s Catholic Church in Kaduna, Nigeria, following a suicide bombing on Oct. 28.
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Standing with the brethren

Nigeria |  A group of Nigerian-Americans organizes to support violence-plagued Christians in northern Nigeria

Lebanese Army soldiers patrol a neighborhood in Beirut

Globe Trot 10.22

International |  A likely centerpiece to tonight’s presidential debate—focusing on foreign policy—is the report that the United States and Iran have agreed in…

Poor Africa

Poor Africa

Africa |  Now that more than 84 million people have viewed Invisible Children's Kony 2012 video, attention has turned once gain to Africa's plight in general. The…

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