Why America's interests are tied to a court battle in Turkey.

How food riots in Haiti crashed my sister's wedding.

What happens when the one million Haitians abroad try to feed the 10 million Haitians at home.

An Africa expert day-tripping in Singapore wonders whether any parts of that Southeast Asian success can be replicated in Africa.

Female Genital Mutilation in Immigrant France.

Dark days in Zimbabwe; South Africa caught up in the drama, too

When Sudan's North-South civil war breaks out fully, it will begin in Abyei, a dust-choked town separating the Islamic north from the Christian/animist south, and it could take all of the Horn of Africa with it.

Does the NATO alliance know why it exists anymore?

Where's the support for Macedonia--Europe's underdog?

Traveling to my parents' native Ethiopia, I thought I left racial tensions back in the U.S. I was wrong.