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June 20, 2019 | Nature
World Health Organization Resists Declaring Ebola Emergency — For The Third Time
An Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo worsens as the virus spreads into Uganda.
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June 18, 2019 | BBC News
Face to Face With DR Congo's Deadly Vipers
Amid the swathes of forest that cover the country, and behind the headlines of war and Ebola, the Democratic Republic of Congo is at the forefront of a hidden health crisis.
June 17, 2019 | Juba Monitor, InfoNile
Green Horizon Food Security Project Raises Wellbeing of Jebel Ladu Communities While Growing Crops to Appease South Sudan’s Hunger Crisis
More than 2.5 million hectares of land in South Sudan have been acquired mainly by international investors since 2006. An Israeli-run farm is helping to fill the country's gap in food production.
June 08, 2019 | Water Journalists Africa, Science Africa
Yala Swamp Saga: Broken Promises, Idle Land
An investor was given a 25 year lease to initiate agricultural projects in Yala Swamp within Kenya. The resulting saga between Dominion Farms Limited and the local community illuminates the economic and environmental tensions central to similar land acquisition deals.
June 07, 2019 | The Atlantic
Intersex, and Proud
2019 Pulitzer Center student fellow film She's Not a Boy focuses on an intersex woman who moved from Zimbabwe to the United States.
June 06, 2019 | Mongabay
Congo’s Hidden Crisis: Snakebites and Envenomation
Tropical climates are home to the world’s most venomous snakes, meaning that it is often the most economically isolated and physically remote communities that are at risk of bites.
May 30, 2019 | Mada Masr, Water Journalists Africa, مدى مصر
How Egypt’s Water Feeds the Gulf
Expansion works to cultivate new fields of alfalfa on land run by investment companies in Egypt has replaced hundreds of agricultural workers.
May 30, 2019 | Satenaw News, Water Journalists Africa, ZeHabesha
Rose: The Flower Impairing Blue Nile River and Communities in Ethiopia
Production of rose flowers and several other types of floras is impairing Blue Nile River and communities in Ethiopia.
May 30, 2019 | Water Journalists Africa
Land Grabbing and Its Implications for Sudanese – Views From a Scholar
Investors are increasingly buying vast swaths of fertile land in Sudan. To find out what this means to Sudanese, grantees Fredrick Mugira and Annika McGinnis talked to Stefano Turrini, a scholar involved in the study of land grabs in Sudan.
April 23, 2019 | The Telegraph
Rwanda Genocide Revisited: What Happened to the Children of Rape Victims?
Documentary photographer Jonathan Torgovnik’s returns to Rwanda after a decade to photograph women with their children conceived through rape during the genocide—how have these families come to terms with the past?
April 08, 2019 | Pulitzer Center
Trailblazers: Women in Rwanda Rise as Leaders in Male-Dominated Professions
Once living under a strict patriarchal society, Rwandan women are emerging as business leaders in male-dominated professions such as agriculture—defying the status quo of gender in a post-genocide era.
April 07, 2019 | Pulitzer Center
Women in Rwanda Redefine Gender Roles through Agribusiness
In a post-genocide era, Rwandan women are stepping forward to rebuild the nation. But can progress continue under authoritarian leadership?
HIV’s Origins—and the Lessons for Today
A scientific detective story that crisscrosses the globe, tracing the origins of HIV and its lessons for today.
Central African Republic: Hidden Heart of Africa
The Central African Republic is one of the last truly wild places on earth, a sparsely populated country that until recently remained quietly anonymous. So why did it descend into chaos?
Ethiopia: Humankind's Origin and Survival
While paleontologists push the dates of our origins back in time, agricultural scientists are trying to ensure that humans last long into the future.
Saving Kenya’s Mothers
Kenya continues to lose 7,000 mothers to preventable deaths each year. If the solutions are known, why has there been so little progress in saving their lives?
Everyday Africa: Pulitzer Center Education Programming
The Pulitzer Center is proud to partner with the Everyday Africa initiative and its founders, and with students and educators across the globe, to expand the project's reach and educational potential.
Cervical Cancer in Uganda
In the U.S., the HPV vaccine and regular pap smears have almost stopped the pervasiveness of cervical cancer in its tracks. In Uganda, however, cervical cancer is the most fatal cancer for women.
Skin Bleaching in Ghana: Media and Cultural Impact
Jessica Edmond, Pulitzer Center student fellow from Southern Illinois University Carbondale, examines the effects of media that promote skin bleaching among women and children in Ghana.
When Militiamen Rule
Less than three years after independence, South Sudan collapsed into civil war. Thousands have died and famine looms on the horizon. Can rebel-leaders-turned-politicians lead the way to peace?
Tremors Below: Mining and Protest in the New South Africa
In South Africa's poorest mining communities, fury at the political class is mounting.
Black Gold in the Cradle of Mankind
Turkana in Kenya’s arid north is the most important place you’ve likely never heard of, quintessential to understanding mankind. Now, Turkana has oil. Is it a pending resource-curse catastrophe?
Less Is More in Niger
The rate of population growth exceeds economic growth in Niger where women have an average of seven children. Government officials hope family planning will become the best way forward.
Love For My Enemy
A multimedia story following survivors and perpetrators of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda as they struggle with their past, meet each other for the first time and dare to ask for forgiveness.
September 16, 2015 | General news, Project news, Awards
'Seeds of Hope' Wins World International Humanitarian Platinum Award
Vote for the Fiona Lloyd-Davies documentary for the 2015 favorite in the World Humanitarian Awards.
September 09, 2015
How Africa's Journalists United for a Pioneering Collaboration
Reporters in one of the largest ever journalistic collaborations in Africa spent months unearthing court records and hushed-up government audits to tell human stories of mining's impacts in Africa.
September 02, 2015 | General news, Project news
Dirt Poor: Poverty and Water Sanitation
Too often, the people most affected by poor water sanitation are also those least able to address the issue. Industry, government, and entrenched poverty all stand in the way of access to clean water.
August 07, 2015 | Project news
Should You Run an NGO Like a Business?
Governments and aid organizations routinely earmark billions of dollars for overseas aid. Could "privatized" forms of aid prevent that money from going to waste?
July 24, 2015 | Project news
Pulitzer Center Journalists on Atlantic's 'Roughly 100 Fantastic Pieces of Journalism'
"Everyday Africa" and other Pulitzer Center grantees included in the Atlantic's Roughly Top 100 non-fiction pieces of 2014.
July 23, 2015 | Project news, Awards
Four Pulitzer Center Grantees Nominated for News and Documentary Emmy Awards
Honored multimedia projects range from an investigation into child labor in gold mining to an examination of reconciliation efforts between survivors and perpetrators of the Rwandan genocide.
July 15, 2015 | General news, Project news
No Time to Hesitate: Ebola First Responders
Global aid agencies floundered for months before tackling the Ebola outbreak. Faster care could have improved survival rates and helped scientists find a cure for the virus.
July 13, 2015 | General news, Project news
This Week: A $1 Million Commitment to Multimedia Freelance Journalism
Furthering its mission to support freelance journalists and top quality foreign reporting, the Pulitzer Center announces its Catalyst Fund.
July 09, 2015 | General news, Project news
Losing a Revolution: Tunisia’s Forgotten Youth
Has the Arab Spring’s most successful democracy failed its most pivotal population?
July 06, 2015 | Project news, Awards
Human Origins Reporting Among This Year's Best American Science and Nature Writing
Science journalist Amy Maxmen's 'Turning Back the Clock on Human Evolution' recognized by its inclusion in 2015 anthology.
July 06, 2015 | General news, Project news
This Week: Youth Fighters in Tunisia
Tunisia's shift, from democracy's hope to a source of ISIS recruits.
June 26, 2015 | General news, Project news
Marginal Changes, Massive Effects: Better Aid for TB and Ebola
Aid organizations and governments spend billions on public health aid in developing countries. Why do so many Ebola and TB clinics still lack basic resources?