Dispatches

Misapprehensions are blocking a resolution in Niger

  • August 30, 2023
  • Robert Coalson

With other West African countries taking sides in the standoff, insecurity in the region is rising to new levels.

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Unrest casts shadow over Senegal’s biggest holiday

  • August 15, 2023
  • James Courtright

President’s coyness on third-term bid exposes societal tensions.

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Turkey’s presidential election boosts nativist politics

  • August 2, 2023
  • Joshua Levkowitz

And endangers an immigration boom in Gaziantep.

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Russian émigrés’ fractured families

  • July 10, 2023
  • Aron Ouzilevski

Exiles reckon with accusations of betrayal from loved ones back home.

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Syrians trapped in Lebanon’s failed state

  • June 30, 2023
  • Joshua Levkowitz

A mounting anti-refugee campaign is raising real fear about deportation home.

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Crete: Europe’s unacknowledged southern border

  • June 30, 2023
  • Steven Tagle

Greece’s largest island embraces its contradictions.

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Communities in Ghana try to arbitrate farmer-herder conflicts on their own

  • April 25, 2023
  • James Courtright

But mediators are still finding themselves ensnared in messy local politics.

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In Warsaw, Russian ‘parliament in exile’ debates a post-Putin future

  • April 24, 2023
  • Aron Ouzilevski

But questions about legitimacy and motives dog the Kremlin's opposition.

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On a Greek island, humanitarian groups’ funding dries up

  • April 20, 2023
  • Steven Tagle

Eight years into the migration crisis, only the most determined organizations remain.

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For Syrian migrants, the Gulf dream has faded

  • April 10, 2023
  • Joshua Levkowitz

Millions once traveled to work in oil-rich Arab monarchies and one day retire back home. That path now seems a dead end.

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