How Covid made education a humanitarian issue: Girls often lost out to boys when accessing technology

How Covid made education a humanitarian issue: Girls often lost out to boys when accessing technology

A dirt road is the only way to reach the remote Peruvian village of Tarucani, located high in the vast arid plains of the Andes, where pink flamingos paddle shallow brooks along the Bolivian border and herds of alpacas forage the dry and sparse vegetation for the few edible morsels....

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Ousted Burkina Faso President Kabore detained, blamed for Islamist insurgency and economic slide

Ousted Burkina Faso President Kabore detained, blamed for Islamist insurgency and economic slide

Burkina Faso’s army said on Monday it had ousted President Roch Kabore, suspended the constitution, dissolved the government and the national assembly, and closed the country’s borders. The announcement cited the deterioration of the security situation and what the army described as Kabore’s inability to unite the West African nation...

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