The authorities in Kenya effectively shut down the capital, Nairobi, on Thursday, blocking highways and deploying security forces to pre-empt an annual protest that has become a focus of opposition to President William Ruto. June 25 has emerged as a significant — and tense — date in Kenya’s political calendar, after security forces killed dozens…
For more than three weeks protesters have gathered peacefully in Tirana, the capital of Albania, cheered on by Americans who see them as plucky warriors against President Trump, Israel and the greed of the “1 percent.” The protests were set off by public outrage over violent security guards at the site of a planned coastal…
Northern Ireland was on edge after a second night of violence in Belfast and surrounding areas following a brutal stabbing attack in the city this week. The case has ignited simmering anti-immigrant sentiment. Far-right figures have called for crowds to take to the streets and said that the United Kingdom should oust millions of foreign-born…
The U.S. plan to open an Ebola quarantine facility in Kenya was meant to help contain the outbreak by isolating American patients exposed to the virus. Instead, it has caused an outbreak of violence and political rancor, with hundreds of Kenyans taking to the streets in protest. Last month, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said…
Since an Ebola outbreak was declared in Bunia, a bustling city in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, global alarms have gone off. Borders have slammed shut, flights have been diverted as far as the United States and the Congolese World Cup team is currently in quarantine in Belgium. Yet here in Bunia, at the heart…
We were nearing the end of our 10-mile journey when we turned off a chaotic six-lane road and onto a quiet bicycle lane bordering a canal. This was as serene as the roughly hourlong bike ride had been, from the hustle and bustle of downtown Cape Town to the fringes of Langa, a township in…
At the same time, the gala is grappling with other uncertainties, including a transition of professional roles for the longtime editor of Vogue, Anna Wintour, whose control over the event — from the seating charts to the finger food — is famously ironclad. In the last year, the 76-year-old Wintour stepped aside from her role…
Protesters in a park in Chicago wore shirts urging lawmakers to tax the rich. In Manhattan, they blocked an entrance to the New York Stock Exchange. In Dallas, they showed solidarity with immigrant workers. And in Washington, they appealed for higher wages with a simple chant. “What’s outrageous? They don’t pay us!” In dozens of…
The Israeli military intercepted a flotilla of boats carrying humanitarian aid bound for Gaza in international waters near Greece, Israeli officials and the activist group behind the mission said on Thursday. The Global Sumud Flotilla, the protest group in charge of the boats, repeatedly tried to deliver aid to Gaza and break through an Israeli…
It was the quiet that most troubled Mara Lynne. Her street usually bustles and thrums, but when armed, masked agents grabbed a passing man and stuffed him into the back of an S.U.V., she was the lone witness. “There was nobody around, just me,” she said. “It was silent. That’s the part that freaks me…
