The headline—"it can be stopped"—is dangerously facile. It suggests that this protracted crisis in eastern Congo is merely a matter of logistics or enough doses arriving on time.
By Tom Beckwith ·
There are moments in global reporting when the sheer weight of human suffering becomes so overwhelming that it threatens to break the journalistic impulse entirely.
By Aoife Gallagher ·
The most dangerous pathogen in any crisis is not always the one with the highest fatality rate; sometimes it is the systemic rot that undermines the very structures meant to contain it.
By Adele Rutherford ·
When I hear about crises—whether it’s at the border fence or deep in the Congo jungle—I am always looking for who is paying the bill. Who gets to profit from the chaos?
By Alma Cordero ·