June 20, 2009 | Pulitzer Center
Donate NowMary Wiltenburg, for the Pulitzer Center
The street scene near the Travertine Hotel in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, not far from the slum neighborhood where Neema lives. (Mary Wiltenburg © Christian Science Monitor)
I got an unexpected break from refugee issues in Tanzania tonight, when I made a brief, surreal foray into the world of gem smuggling.