Middle East & North Africa

L-R: U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu make statements to the media after their meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on Monday, January 30, 2023. DEBBIE HILL/Pool via REUTERS

How is the US weighing in with Israel’s new hardline government?

Natan Sachs and Adrianna Pita

Friday, February 3, 2023

Women protest denouncing the violence that took place against them at an earlier protest against the military, in Omdurman, Sudan December 23, 2021. REUTERS/El Tayeb Siddig

Sudanese women advancing justice and equality since the 1920s

Rogaia Abusharaf and Aloysius Uche Ordu

Wednesday, February 1, 2023

Tom Vilsack, Secretary of Agriculture and Janet Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury, President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Senegalese President Macky Sall participate in the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit Closing Session on Promoting Food Security and Food Systems Resilience at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC on Dec. 15, 2022. (Photo by Oliver Contreras/Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM)No Use *** World Rights ***.

Did the US-Africa Leaders Summit meet its objectives?

Aloysius Uche Ordu and David Dollar

Monday, December 19, 2022

Sand begins to surround houses close to the town of Ambovombe, Androy region, Madagascar, February 15, 2022. Madagascar has always known extreme weather events, but scientists say these will likely increase as human-induced climate change pushes temperatures higher. Four years of drought, along with deforestation caused by people burning or cutting down trees to make charcoal or to open up land for farming, have transformed the area into a dust bowl. REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis/File Photo TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY SEARCH "GLOBAL POY" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "REUTERS POY" FOR ALL BEST OF 2022 PACKAGES.

Dispatches from Africa’s COP: Malagasy youth on Madagascar’s beauty and the climate risks it faces

Fenitra Jérémiah, Anja Radoharinirina, and Aloysius Uche Ordu

Thursday, December 8, 2022

FILE PHOTO: A girl walks past a flag of Ghana outside the Cape Coast Castle, in Ghana, July 28, 2019. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko/File Photo

Dispatches from Africa’s COP: Ghanaian youth are joining climate action for survival

Maryjane Enchill, Nadia Owusu, and Aloysius Uche Ordu

Wednesday, December 7, 2022

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Dispatches from Africa’s COP: Seychelles youth opt for climate capacity building

Victoria Alis and Aloysius Uche Ordu

Tuesday, December 6, 2022

Kenya, Marsabit, 2022-08-02. A young girl carries yellow water jerry cans, a symbol of the hours spent searching for water in the area. Report in northern Kenya where the drought is only getting worse. Photography by Claudia Lacave / Hans Lucas. Kenya, Marsabit, 2022-08-02. Une jeune fille porte des jerricanes d eau jaunes, un symbole des heures passees a la recherche d eau dans la region. Reportage dans le nord du Kenya ou la secheresse ne fait que s aggraver. Photographie par Claudia Lacave / Hans Lucas.

Dispatches from Africa’s COP: Kenyan youth on the frontlines of climate adaptation

Tomas Hurdsone, Beverly Musili, and Aloysius Uche Ordu

Monday, December 5, 2022

A newspaper with a cover picture of Mahsa Amini, a woman who died after being arrested by the Islamic republic's "morality police" is seen in Tehran, Iran September 18, 2022. Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY.

Will protests in Iran end the Islamic Republic?

Suzanne Maloney and David Dollar

Monday, October 3, 2022

The different ways that platforms can and do moderate extremist content

Daniel L. Byman and Alan Z. Rozenshtein

The Lawfare Podcast

Thursday, September 22, 2022

FILE PHOTO: Gas prices are advertised at a Chevron station as rising inflation and oil costs affect the consumers in Los Angeles, California, U.S., June 13, 2022. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson/File Photo

Biden’s trip to Saudi Arabia is unlikely to lower oil prices

Thursday, July 14, 2022