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Julian Hattem

Julian Hattem is a journalist living in East Africa. He has written for the Washington Post, the Guardian, Roads & Kingdoms, the Atlantic and World Politics Review, among other outlets. Previously, he spent several years in Washington, DC, most recently covering national security and foreign policy for The Hill.
an african migrant scales a razor-wire topped fence in Ceuta, Spain
Immigration
The razor wire that separates Europe from Africa might be coming down
Women carry baskets of banana as they walk past a military personnel patrolling in Uganda's capital Kampala, Feb. 19, 2016.
Development
Amid drought and pests, can GMOs save Uganda’s farmers?
Rose Nakimuli
Conflict
23 women have been murdered in these Ugandan towns since May. Police blame witchcraft.
Uganda's Bidi Bidi refugee camp, shown here on April 5, 2017, is now home to 285,000 residents, nearly all of them having refugees from South Sudan's civil war.
Conflict
Turning the world’s largest refugee camp into a ‘big city’
Inani Beach, an 11-mile beach on the Bay of Bengal, makes up part of Cox's Bazar 75-mile sea beach — one of the longest beaches in the world.
Business
You’re welcome to visit the longest beach in the world — unless you’re a refugee
A wounded child undergoes medical treatment in Juba, South Sudan, Dec. 28, 2013.
Conflict
This South Sudanese school trained a medical corps amid civil war. Then the gunmen arrived.
A mother who fled fighting in South Sudan carries her child on arrival at Bidi Bidi refugee resettlement camp near the border in Yumbe district, northern Uganda, Dec. 7, 2016.
Conflict
More refugees entered Uganda last year than crossed the Mediterranean