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Like a lot of us, I used to blog like crazy. It helped me think, and it helped me get work as a freelance journalist. Then…
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An Aid Worker Fights for Justice After Being Raped in South Sudan
Megan Nobert is a 28-year-old lawyer with an expertise in sexual and gender-based violence. Last year, she went to South Sudan hoping to help its…
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“We lost everything. I can’t begin to tell you, what is our everything.”
This is what a man in the Bentiu refugee camp told me. He sought me out when he saw me writing down what women…
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All of Uganda’s Free Emergecy Contraceptives Are About to Expire
NAIROBI — Uganda’s entire public stock of emergency contraceptives will expire by Wednesday, leaving women — especially survivors of rape — in the lurch.
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The Sexual Abuse of Cambodia’s History is No Longer Invisible
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — In the early days of the new regime, Chan Phay lived a mostly normal life. By 1975, the Khmer Rouge…
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How Rwandan Women Got Their Power
Twenty years after Rwanda’s genocide, the country’s women have made huge strides in politics and law. But culture changes more slowly. KIGALI, Rwanda —…
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These Are the Families Left to Reclaim Garissa’s Dead
After Kenya’s deadliest terror attack, it was hard for families to recognize their murdered loved ones.
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Terrorized Kenyan Town Loses Doctors, Nurses
The bodies of the students killed at Garissa University, in Kenya’s most deadly terrorist attack in nearly 10 years, had all been flown to…
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“I Even Ran Barefoot”: Survivors of Kenya College Attack Struggle With Terror’s Aftermath
“There are still people there, sleeping in the forest.” Survivors of Kenya’s worst terrorist attack in years describe fleeing al-Shabaab militants. BuzzFeed News’ Jina…
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“Nobody’s Ambition Is Worth the Blood of Any Nigerian”
President Goodluck Jonathan conceded his re-election bid Tuesday in Nigeria’s first ever peaceful democratic transition of power. ABUJA, Nigeria — Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan…
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