5 Spray Planes Trying to Save Kenya From Billions of Locusts

JOE MWIHIA, JOSPHAT KASIRE and BEN CURTIS / The Associated Press Feb 2, 2020 The voracious insects have swept in from Somalia and Ethiopia to threaten other East African nations — and they're breeding fast. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Pope Offers Christmas Message of Hope to a Suffering World

The Associated Press Dec 25, 2019 The pontiff calls for easing of tensions in conflict zones from Syria to Venezuela and spotlights the plight of migrants fleeing injustice. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

The Carnage of War Is Tearing Humanity Apart

Nick Turse / TomDispatch Sep 9, 2019 Bodies irreversibly broken by global conflicts serve as an ongoing testament to war’s long legacy of destruction. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

Humans Are Robbing Other Species of Space

Tim Radford / Climate News Network Mar 12, 2019 As human growth adds to our numbers and demands, other species’ survival chances shrink. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Jesus Christ’s Lesson for the 21st Century

Robert Scheer / Truthdig Feb 15, 2019 Tom Catena, who risks his life daily to provide medical care in an African war zone, examines what it means to be a good Samaritan. Dig deeper ( 27 Min. Read )

Yemen Remains on the Verge of a Large-Scale Famine

By Vijay Prashad / Independent Media Institute Dec 17, 2018 The U.N. and the U.S. Senate weigh in, but will their actions be enough to bring peace? Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Climate Change as Genocide

By Michael T. Klare / TomDispatch Apr 23, 2017 Only concerted action on multiple fronts can prevent the human disasters now unfolding in Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen from becoming the global norm. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )

Facing Famine, 20 Million People Need Food, Not Bombs

By Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan Mar 16, 2017 President Trump's response to the most serious humanitarian catastrophe since the end of World War II is to slash aid, bar refugees and expand the military. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

The Worst Place on Earth: Death and Life in a Lost South Sudanese Town

By Nick Turse / TomDispatch Oct 24, 2016 This is no longer a town, but a killing field—a place where human remains lie unburied, whose residents have long since fled. Its few remaining inhabitants mostly are refugees from similarly ravaged villages. Dig deeper ( 29 Min. Read )

Truthdiggers of the Week: The Refugee Olympic Team

BLANK Aug 13, 2016 The 10 athletes competing without a flag or anthem at the Rio Olympics are challenging conceptions of nationalism, as well as reminding the world that the growing refugee crisis must be addressed. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

We Live in an Age of Disintegration

By Patrick Cockburn / TomDispatch Jun 30, 2016 Nowhere is the process of destabilization more evident than in the Greater Middle East and Africa, in places where it is possible to doubt that civilization will ever return. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )

Hillary Clinton’s State Department Let South Sudan Use Child Soldiers

Staff / Truthdig Jun 11, 2016 Hillary Clinton spent years vowing to defend the rights of children worldwide, but under her leadership the State Department played a central role in allowing rebel forces in southern Sudan to use child soldiers in defiance of a 2008 law forbidding it. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )