Al-Shabab kidnaps Somali children to fill its ranks. Parents pull kids from school or flee to protect them.

Tens of thousands of married women in Uganda are secretly undergoing ‘the cut’

Ugandans pose as refugees for food because the drought is so bad

Uganda’s other refugee crisis

More South Sudanese children are fleeing their country alone

Somalis walk for days searching for food and water while al-Shabab blocks aid

These young Somalis refuse to go ‘home’ when Kenya closes the world’s largest refugee camp

Kenyans in Obama’s ancestral village worry the world will forget them now

The child sex trade is booming in this Kenyan port city

‘Mogadishu used to be hell. Now it’s coming back to life’

Somalis used to flee to Yemen to escape war. Now it’s the other way around

The job market for terror recruits is booming