Sharmila Devi is a journalist with more than 25 years of experience writing for international newspapers, journals, and agencies. She worked for the Financial Times for more than a decade, served as the newspaper's Jerusalem correspondent during the Second Intifada, and reported extensively from the Middle East and Africa. She has also worked as a political risk consultant and writer for humanitarian agencies.
Luckily for the rest of the world, the Ebola disease outbreak that has claimed almost 4,000 lives in the Democratic Republic of Congo is not...
The visit of US officials to Myanmar earlier this month to secure the release of a US businessman held in custody was a rare engagement...
Rising xenophobia is creating domestic conniptions across Africa in an echo of the anti-migrant passions unleashed in the West. In Kenya, President William Ruto has led...
As President Donald Trump runs amok on the global stage, a meeting between China’s Xi Jinping and Egypt’s Abdel Fattah el-Sisi in Cairo pointed to...
Few people remember that in the 1950s tens of thousands of people in the western world spent hours each day in an iron lung –...
