Milei's government axed a program that paid people to clear trash from their own neighborhoods. Now, both garbage and health fears are piling up. LOMAS DE ZAMORA, BUENOS AIRES PROVINCE, ARGENTINA — A ...

OAXACA DE JUÁREZ, MEXICO — In the hills of Oaxaca, on the floor of a hotel’s palm-covered rooftop terrace, nine men sit in a circle on colored mats. The group is part of a workshop designed to help ...

OAXACA DE JUÁREZ, MEXICO — Dawn lights up shards of glass along the downtown streets of Oaxaca de Juárez — vestiges of the broken windows of cars that had been parked there during the night. One ...

ASHULIA, BANGLADESH — Lima Akter, 28, sold her television first. Then her phone, then her refrigerator. Now, she plans to sell her sewing machine. After working in the garment industry for 12 years, ...

GOMA, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO — At the end of September 2023, President Félix Tshisekedi called for withdrawal of a peacekeeping mission to Democratic Republic of Congo. Tshisekedi was speaking ...

Providing sexual and gender minorities with secure places to live has become more fraught since the passage of an anti-homosexuality law. WAKISO, UGANDA — In 2021, John Grace’s father gave him an ...

HARARE, ZIMBABWE — For years, this country’s capital city has discharged sewage into its main water supply. Then, the city started charging to purify the water — a cost that locals say eats as much as ...

TOA ALTA, PUERTO RICO — Over the years, Benjamín González has watched his local landfill grow into a mountain of trash. It has polluted his city’s once-pristine ravines. It has tainted the limestone ...

ADJUMANI, UGANDA – Lindiro Jane has fled war twice. The first time was in 2016, when renewed violence in South Sudan pushed her, her husband and their six children across the border into Uganda’s ...

KAMPALA, UGANDA — Sangara Bahizire occasionally works as a French, Lingala and Swahili interpreter for the Ugandan Judiciary. Until 2013, Sangara had spent three years practicing as an attorney in ...

A requirement for nursing students guarantees low pay, and a risk that their diplomas will be withheld. HARARE, ZIMBABWE and LUSAKA, ZAMBIA — At a nursing school in Zambia, many of the students aren’t ...

Fishermen bemoan dwindling catches as contamination by industrial waste and other pollutants raises concerns about the safety of food and drinking water. NORTON, ZIMBABWE — Paul Majoni stares at the ...