Is Rwanda’s authoritarian state sustainable? Laura Seay, The Washington Post June 3 2016 Image: From left: Tony Blair, former British prime minister, Rwandan President Paul Kagame and Howard G. Buffett, chairman and chief executive of the Howard G. Buffett Foundation, at the World Economic Forum in Kigali, Rwanda, on May 12, 2016. (Cyril Ndegeya/AFP via Getty Images) Rwanda is the great success story of a post-conflict state in Africa. The country’s

Amal Clooney Will Represent Victims of Yazidi Genocide Most of the victims of the Yazidi genocide are women Rosalie Chan, Time  June 9 2016 Image: Amal Clooney in Wesywood, CA on Feb. 1, 2016. Axelle/Bauer-Griffin—Getty Images Lawyer and activist Amal Clooney will represent the women who have been enslaved and trafficked by ISIS in the Yazidi genocide. Clooney, a barrister who specializes in international law and human rights law, plans to

Rich Paraguayans can ‘adopt’ children as domestic help. But that might change. Simeon Tegel, The Washington Post  12 June 2016 Image: A young Aché girl combs her hair in Cerro Moroti, Paraguay. Many poor indigenous families in rural Paraguay allow affluent urban households to informally adopt their children, a practice that the government is seeking to outlaw. (Jorge Saenz/AP) ASUNCION, Paraguay — Tina Alvarenga never asked her mother why,

Suicide bombings in and around Iraqi capital kill 31 people Sinan Salaheddin, The Washington Post  9 June 2016 Image: A survivor looks for his family members at the scene of a deadly suicide car bomb attack in the New Baghdad neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, June 9, 2016. Two separate suicide attacks in and outside the Iraqi capital have killed at least 27 people and wounded dozens. Officials say the deadliest bombing took place in New

Twin blasts near Damascus kill 12, wounds dozens Bassem Mroue, The Washington Post  11 June 2016 Image: Civilians and members of the Syrian army inspect the damage after an attack by suicide bombers in the Damascus suburb of Sayyida Zeinab. (Omar Sanadiki/Reuters) BEIRUT — Suicide bombers struck close to Damascus on Saturday, killing at least 12 people and wounding dozens more. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the bombings through

The International Embrace of Khartoum: Causes and Consequences for Greater Sudan Eric Reeves, School for Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) University of London June 7 2016  Image: New York Times dispatch from Nyuru, West Darfur (February 22, 2012); the caption to this accompanying photograph reads in part, “peace has settled on the region.” I hope this evening is to make sense of my title by offering a highlighted history of the past five

A Report from the Yazda Documentation Project on Mass Graves of Yazidis Killed by the Islamic State Organization or Local Affiliates On or After August 3, 2014 Yazda A Global Yazidi Organization  January 28 2016 Image: Part of the Hamadan site after tampering – Photo: Yazda

American ISIS fighter who ‘found it hard’ returns to face criminal charges Matt Zapotosky, The Washington Post 9 June 2016 Image: Mohamad Khweis in 2010. (Fairfax County Police) A Northern Virginia man who joined and then fled the Islamic State before being captured by Kurdish fighters in Iraq was flown back to the United States late Wednesday to face trial. Mohamad Khweis was charged in federal district court in Alexandria with providing and

Eritrean Accused of Trafficking Migrants Is Captured in Sudan, Italy Says Gaia Pianigiani and Sewell Chan, The New York Times 9 June 2016 Image: European Union delegates paid tribute before rows of coffins at an airport hangar in Lampedusa, Italy, in 2013. The coffins held the bodies of the victims of the shipwreck that killed more than 300 migrants off the Sicilian island. CreditRoberto Salomone/European Commission, via European Pressphoto Agency

Three Hospitals Attacked in Rebel Side of Aleppo, Syria Hwaida Saad and Rick Gladstone, The New York Times  June 9 2016 Image: Syrians inspected damage on Wednesday after an airstrike in al-Shaar, a rebel-held neighborhood of Aleppo. Credit Abdalrhman Ismail/Reuters BEIRUT, Lebanon — Bombs from airstrikes hit three hospitals on Wednesday in the rebel-held side of Aleppo, Syria, including a pediatrics center supported by the United Nations,