Why Ethiopia has postponed its census
IN ETHIOPIA, Africa’s second most populous country, it is often difficult to distinguish politics from demography. On March…
Australian voters keep rejecting nativist campaigns
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Why Pakistan has so many quacks
MOHAMMAD ZAHID sat sullenly in the office where minutes earlier he had been doling out advice, pills and injections to a long…
Exposing K-pop’s dirty secrets
ALL THAT’S left of the “Burning Sun” nightclub in Seoul are the faint outlines of the letters that used to spell its name,…
Indonesian voters get a genuine choice, but an increasingly narrow one
IN A METAL pavilion down a backstreet in Yogyakarta, a mid-sized Indonesian city, Tutiek Widyo is making her pitch to the crowd….
After an ineptly rigged election, Thailand’s junta will cling to power
“WE HAVE RECEIVED a mandate from the people,” declared Sudarat Keyuraphan, a leader of the Pheu Thai party. She was introducing…
The world’s most sacred river—the Ganges—is also one of its dirtiest
ROUND AND round the baggage carousel at London’s Heathrow airport goes a battered cardboard box waiting to be claimed by its…
The rush to avert a second disaster after floods in Mozambique
JULIETA MUSSACA and her two children survived on coconuts knocked from trees by the storm and a bag of rice left soggy from the…
Rwanda has banned talking about ethnicity
print-edition icon Print edition | Middle East and Africa Mar 28th 2019 | KIGALI “IT’S THE nose, they always look at your…