Dispatch

Demonstrations against police brutality—organized on social media and powered by artists and musicians—have shown Nigeria’s youth that they have the power to change society.

Italian fishermen are being kidnapped off the coast of Libya—and Rome is too caught up in EU migration politics to help.

Drought has disrupted the traditional way of life for pastoralists, pushing many women into business for the first time.

On Sunday, after months of protests, voters can choose to keep or begin a process of replacing the current constitution.

Sudan’s decision to forge ties with Israel is one more gift from the Trump administration.

After the peace deal with the United States, the militant group has doubled down on collecting “taxes” from Afghanistan’s coal miners.

As Afghanistan peace talks drag on, with Washington sending mixed signals on troop withdrawals, the Taliban make a violent bid for a key province.

Chrystia Freeland, Mary Ng, and Kirsten Hillman got the White House to do something rare: back down.

Both the government and demonstrators are borrowing tactics from Hong Kong.

Five years after the arrival of more than a million refugees, one city in western Germany is emblematic of all that’s gone right—and wrong.

After a confrontation with the royal motorcade, the government is cracking down.

Beirut could tap billions of dollars in natural gas revenue if it can resolve the border dispute.

The tragic figure behind the Hungarian populist leader’s efforts to remake his country’s theater.

Religious violence is growing despite the pandemic.

Diplomatic battles over fish stocks—and the future of struggling coastal communities—threaten to drag the U.K.-EU relationship onto the rocks.

A string of assassinations has spawned conspiracy theories and intercommunal suspicion, threatening the country’s stability.

The burning of the Moria refugee camp in Lesbos has exposed the EU’s short-sighted, inhumane, and ineffective approach to asylum.

Bibi succumbs to pressure from religious factions even as he imposes a second nationwide lockdown.

Seoul seems to have shown the way to mitigating both the health and the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic.

As the United States abandons demands for human rights, young Afghans are embracing free speech the only place they can—on the Internet.

The biggest rallies in years are risking the wrath of royalists eager to use the lèse-majesté law.

Pandemic measures focus anger on crimes against women.

Hungary’s prime minister has used the pandemic to drain power from one of the last sources of opposition to his rule.

Afro-Brazilians make up over half of the country’s population, but they are still fighting for their right to live.

President Andrzej Duda is locked in a surprisingly close race with Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski. Their rivalry is the latest battle between the country’s poorer and more religious rural regions and its wealthier, socially liberal cities.

As coronavirus cases there exceed 1 million, the country’s poorest are struggling to access medical care.

The sudden death of the outgoing president, the coronavirus pandemic, and an ailing economy mean that wide-ranging reforms are needed more than ever.

Activists are calling for independence in eastern Nigeria once more as the government tries to stamp out separatism.

Children are at the center of the Central African Republic’s efforts to fight the coronavirus pandemic—and to break the country’s cycles of violence.

Within weeks of a mass shooting, the Canadian government passed a ban on assault-style weapons despite widespread firearms ownership and vocal gun rights groups.

A country with a proud history of trade and commerce is starting to crumble into permanent poverty.

Foreign visitors have helped prop up the faltering Italian economy. If they don’t come back, the country is in trouble.

Public health is a convenient pretext for extending authoritarian controls.

The Iraqi government is finally starting to make progress in its attempt to curb the influence of Kataib Hezbollah.

As the pandemic threatens livelihoods, the country’s poor are relying almost exclusively on the charity of fellow citizens.