A Thriving Border Town Undercuts South Africa’s Anti-Immigrant Mood
People by the thousands risk crocodile attacks, robbery, drowning and arrest to cross the Limpopo River from Zimbabwe to South Africa, part of a booming migrant economy.
People by the thousands risk crocodile attacks, robbery, drowning and arrest to cross the Limpopo River from Zimbabwe to South Africa, part of a booming migrant economy.
Against the odds, facing the encroaching Sahara, he built a forest in Burkina Faso, becoming “a national hero” and winning acclaim abroad for his innovations.
Maalim Ayman, a senior leader of the extremist group al-Shabab, was believed responsible for attacks in Kenya on a university town that killed 148 people, and on a U.S. military base that killed three Americans.
The director of UNRWA affairs criticized Israel’s orders for civilians to evacuate parts of central Gaza, saying “no place is safe.”
The spread of clandestine fentanyl labs in Canada could undermine U.S. enforcement efforts.
A new crop of Silicon Valley-backed digital banks has promised financial inclusion for Brazil’s poor. The effort has left some borrowers worse off than before.
The U.N. resolution, which passed after the U.S. and Russia abstained from voting, calls for “extended humanitarian pauses” to allow aid to flow into Gaza.
Air pollution in the Pakistani city of Lahore is estimated to reduce average life expectancy by over seven years.
Russian President Vladimir Putin denies that Ukraine has its own identity or culture apart from Russia. Many Ukrainian artists have been killed while fighting to stop his invasion.
“Who can sing ‘Joy to the World’ today?” asks the Rev. Munther Isaac, pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church.