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.
Barely two weeks after the UN noted it was 1,000 days since Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban banned girls from attending secondary school, the global body oversaw...
By the end of next month, about 155,000 displaced people, most of them Yazidis who have already faced violence and much upheaval, will be forced...
Conflicting US foreign policy priorities on China, climate change and human rights is being sharply illustrated in the murky dealings over rare mineral mining involving...
Memories of the Covid years of lockdowns and restrictions are gradually fading despite the traumas suffered at the time. So it is not surprising that...
Ask someone in the street in a wealthy, western capital which country hosts the most number of refugees and few would give the correct answer:...
