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Inside the process for selecting a new UN secretary-general
4+ day, 16+ hour ago (884+ words) Sept. 09, 2026, 1:04 p.m. ET When the first U.N. secretary-general, Norwegian Trygve Lie, handed off to his successor in 1953, he gave a stark assessment of the difficulty of the role. “Welcome to the most impossible job in the world,” he said. The search is…...
In Somaliland, a book fair is writing a nation into existence
1+ week, 4+ day ago (706+ words) Sept. 03, 2026, 5:00 a.m. ET | Hargeisa, Somaliland On an evening in late July, poet Suhaib Faro stood on stage at the Hargeysa International Book Fair and began to tell a love story. Sitting in tight rows of plastic chairs, members of the audience…...
Côte d’Ivoire’s ambitions are sky high. Now, it has a building to match.
1+ week, 5+ day ago (550+ words) Sept. 01, 2026, 1:39 p.m. ET | Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire For locals, who lovingly refer to the downtown of Côte d’Ivoire’s capital Abidjan as “Little Manhattan,” the city’s skyline is about to get one step closer to the real thing. Construction is expected to be…...
A history buff is on a quest to keep Nigeria’s past alive
2+ week, 4+ day ago (555+ words) Aug. 26, 2026, 10:39 a.m. ET | Lagos, Nigeria At age 9, Raphael James began collecting a trove of Nigerian history. Coins withdrawn from circulation during the Nigerian Civil War lay scattered across the boy’s village, Ahuwa-Oboro, in southeastern Abia state. He picked them up, intrigued…...
In Eswatini, learning golf is a fairway to opportunity for young people
2+ week, 4+ day ago (677+ words) Aug. 26, 2026, 10:18 a.m. ET | Ezulwini, Eswatini Only 2 miles separate the manicured greens of the Ezulwini Golf & Country Club and the rocky ground of the rural villages over the hill. But they have long existed as two different worlds. At the country club,…...
In cocoa???s heartland, African farmers seek new opportunities
3+ week, 2+ day ago (1609+ words) Workers use machetes to extract cocoa beans from pods at Odette Kouakou’s farm, April 11, 2026, in M’Brimbo, Côte d’Ivoire. In the shade of a dense forest canopy, Odette Kouakou paces through her grove of cocoa trees, snapping off dead leaves and…...
In cocoa’s heartland, African farmers seek new opportunities
3+ week, 2+ day ago (1599+ words) Aug. 22, 2026, 5:00 a.m. ET | M’Brimbo, Côte d’Ivoire In the shade of a dense forest canopy, Odette Kouakou paces through her grove of cocoa trees, snapping off dead leaves and poking the ripe yellow pods hanging down from the branches with a stick....
On the youngest continent in the world, a push for more kid-friendly cities
3+ week, 3+ day ago (860+ words) Aug. 20, 2026, 3:20 p.m. ET | Johannesburg, South Africa; and Nairobi, Kenya “That was an awakening,” Ms. Ndegwa says. She realized that her city wasn’t built with her – or her child – in mind. Africa is the fastest urbanizing region on the planet. It's also…...
Migration is reshaping life for married women in Senegal
3+ week, 3+ day ago (726+ words) Aug. 20, 2026, 12:01 p.m. ET | Léona, Senegal A plastic chair, a floor mat, a washbasin. In a sandy courtyard in this rural community in northwestern Senegal, that is all it takes to conjure an imaginary house as part of a women’s program performed…...
As the UN picks its 10th chief, a woman may finally break the glass ceiling
3+ week, 5+ day ago (1030+ words) Aug. 18, 2026, 3:27 p.m. ET | United Nations In the public lobby of the U.N. headquarters building, visitors can peruse the portraits of recent secretaries-general of the world’s premier international governmental organization. All are men. A few feet away hangs a display featuring “women who…...