Dispatch
The view from the ground.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 A Real Debate Before Uganda’s Fake Election
Longtime President Yoweri Museveni made history by facing his challengers in a televised showdown. That doesn’t mean this week’s elections aren’t already rigged in his favor.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Fortress Europe’s Balkan Outpost
In giving up on Greece, Europe is betting on the tiny, corruption-ridden non-EU state of Macedonia to save the Schengen treaty from collapse. Is it ready?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Syria Cease-Fire Brings Turkey Closer to War
Russia has accelerated its brutal bombing campaign and is working with Turkey’s Kurdish enemies to seize as much land as it can — before peace breaks out.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Love and War in Eastern Congo
A rebel advance means two sweethearts must delay their wedding. But when they finally tie the knot with friends and family, fear is banished for a day.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Do We Have to ‘Hijack Your Planes’ Again?
Unable to control a wave of violence in Israel or maintain security in the West Bank, the rudderless, frustrated Palestinian Authority is out of ideas.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Uganda Discovered the Zika Virus. And the Solution for It.
The African country has shown that not all crisis management is made the same.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Why Are Russian Engineers Working at an Islamic State-Controlled Gas Plant in Syria?
Moscow says it's at war with the jihadist group -- but both sides aren't opposed to cutting economic deals amid the bloodshed.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 ‘The Rise of the American Taliban’
Pakistan’s elite on the Trump phenomenon.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Iranian Spies Tried to Entrap Me in a Pret A Manger
How the ayatollah’s online trolls lure, discredit, and intimidate journalists halfway around the world.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Ebola Rape Epidemic No One’s Talking About
When the outbreak hit West Africa, fevers spiked – and so did rates of teenage pregnancy.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Burundi Intervention That Wasn’t
When the African Union threatened to force a peacekeeping mission, Burundi called its bluff — and threw the pan-African body’s credibility into question in the process.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Looking for Allah as a Shiite in Saudi Arabia
I came to Mecca seeking spiritual enlightenment. I found discrimination and distrust.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 How the U.N. Let Assad Edit the Truth of Syria’s War
As Syrian civilians starved to death, U.N. officials let the government in Damascus alter its master plan for saving lives.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Nein Doesn’t Mean Nein
Germany’s problems coping with sexual violence go far beyond the assaults committed by migrants in Cologne.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Egypt’s Silent Anniversary
An unprecedented crackdown has the country’s liberal activists reconsidering everything.
