Sudarsan Raghavan
Monday, September 29, 2014 - 05:42
In a village emblematic of a long and brutal conflict: "We no longer know if even God can end this war."
Friday, August 8, 2014 - 08:06
Palestinian militants began to fire rockets at Israel again Friday morning after a three-day truce ended and talks in Cairo to extend it sputtered.
Monday, April 28, 2014 - 08:01
Fierce clashes erupted in South Sudan on Wednesday as rebels sought to seize control of oil-rich areas, two days after U.N. officials accused them of killing hundreds of civilians in ethnically motivated attacks.
Tuesday, April 8, 2014 - 09:28
Inside two adjacent houses in an upscale area of Rwanda’s capital, the unfinished business of the country’s 1994 genocide unfolds. Members of the Genocide Fugitive Tracking Unit work from here to bring to trial dozens of key perpetrators who fled abroad after the killings, some of them to the United States — and 20 years later, there’s still no end in sight.
Monday, March 10, 2014 - 09:12
Central African Republic — Fatimatu Yamsa will never know her baby’s fate, but in an instant she altered it forever.
Thursday, February 6, 2014 - 08:39
The military ceremony Wednesday was meant to be a fresh beginning, an army being reconstituted after months of bloodshed, in front of a new interim president who declared how proud she was of the nation’s soldiers.
Tuesday, January 21, 2014 - 11:58
When South Sudan won independence from Sudan in 2011, oil was seen as a potential spark that could reignite tensions and cripple the new nation. But today, oil is motivating efforts to save it.
Wednesday, January 15, 2014 - 07:03
Rebel forces launched an offensive Tuesday to retake the town of Malakal, the capital of a strategic oil-producing region in the world’s newest country, as reports emerged of a ferry accident in which as many as 200 South Sudanese fleeing clashes drowned, according to a military spokesman.
Monday, January 6, 2014 - 07:52
The United Nations has dispatched a record number of peacekeepers in Africa in recent years, deploying soldiers to trouble spots such as the Central African Republic and South Sudan. Yet the “blue helmets” and thousands of other soldiers sent by African regional groups have failed to prevent fresh spasms of violence.
Monday, December 9, 2013 - 10:27
They came by the hundreds, late into Friday night. They parked their cars blocks away and walked through the darkness, some carrying candles, some flowers. They were men, women and children, black, white and brown, Christians, Muslims and Jews, gays and lesbians, and they all walked until they converged in front of the house of the man mourned by the whole world.