Middle East & Africa

Crime fiction

When people don’t trust you, try cartoons and creative writing

Powering up

Its ambitions may yet meet a number of obstacles

The horn laws

It is too expensive to protect them from poachers

France and Africa

France’s decision to quit leaves its Africa policy in disarray

Trip hazards

Joe Biden’s diplomacy could upend the Middle East, and give the Saudis nuclear technology

Prison blues

And most have not even been convicted

Never let a crisis go to waste

His son is in charge of disaster aid, while talk of elections will be put on hold

Hostages and a fortune

But inside the country, tensions are running high

Making sex safer again

The virus can be brought under control, but it’s complicated

Kenya, Africa’s climate laboratory

But not everyone agrees

A court of their own

Two women are leading the opposition to the government’s legal reforms

Earth and water

After both disasters, authorities spurned offers of help and left victims to suffer