The Weight of the World
2021 kicks off the United Nations Decade on Ocean Science. Meanwhile, a local conservation group in Watamu, Kenya races to save endangered sea turtles—by enlisting human allies. Terrain.org December 10, […]
2021 kicks off the United Nations Decade on Ocean Science. Meanwhile, a local conservation group in Watamu, Kenya races to save endangered sea turtles—by enlisting human allies. Terrain.org December 10, […]
Atlas Obscura November 24, 2020 Emmanuel Kalisa helped kill a lion, one of the last in Rwanda’s Akagera National Park, around 2002. Lions often mauled cattle owned by local herders such […]
Washington Post February 19, 2020 About two years ago in northern Uganda, I watched anxiously as an endangered pangolin was released into a protected forest. Wildlife authorities and conservationists had […]
The Lancet August 31, 2019 Behind the beautiful touristic sand beaches, sober recovery houses provide safe havens for the thousands of people dealing with heroin addiction in Zanzibar. Amy Yee […]
New York Times May 12, 2019 DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania — After nightfall, when trash covers the streets of the busy Kariakoo market here, compactor trucks rumble along followed by men […]
New York Times April 12, 2019 BEIRA, Mozambique — Daviz Simango grew up in Beira, Mozambique, the port city on the Indian Ocean, and has been mayor since 2003. He […]
NPR April 30, 2019 Ejiao is the name of a traditional Chinese medicine that supposedly treats anemia, reproductive issues and insomnia – though the alleged medicinal properties are unproven. Nonetheless, […]
Dateline (Overseas Press Club magazine) April 18, 2019 At a prison in Thiès, Senegal, a group of women in fine dresses cut from the same colorful fabric enact […]
Science magazine March 13, 2019 UGANDA—The small pangolin tucked its head toward its belly and curled its tail around its body. Clad in large scales, it resembled a pine […]
New York Times December 3, 2018 GBAMU GBAMU, Nigeria — Music blasts from King Royal Guesthouse, a small restaurant in the village of Gbamu Gbamu, a three-hour drive from Lagos. […]