This is How a Mudslide Can Kill So Many People in Sierra Leone Kimberly Curtis August 15, 2017 Rainy season is currently upon Sierra Leone but this year the rains brought more than the country can handle. Heavy rains over the weekend around the capitol Freetown resulted in flash flooding and several maj...
Elections in Kenya Have Everyone Worrying About the Prospects of Violence Kimberly Curtis August 7, 2017 Last week, a top election official in Kenya went missing. Days later, his tortured and murdered body was discovered. Chris Msando was the IT manager for the country's independent election commission in charge o...
“Fake News” is Shaping Hotly Contested Elections in Kenya. The Results Could Be Deadly Kimberly Curtis August 2, 2017 “Fake news” is not a new concept anywhere in the world but in the run up to the highly competitive Kenyan elections next week, the rise of fake news is fueling fears that it could exacerbate an already tense si...
The Tangled Politics of Search and Rescue Operations in the Mediterranean Kimberly Curtis July 21, 2017 Since the early 1990s, North Africa has served as a jumping point for migrants trying to reach Europe. Then, as now, these are mixed migration routes where refugees and asylum seekers travel side by side with m...
Can this Woman Bring Justice to Syria? Kimberly Curtis July 7, 2017 Six years in, the conflict in Syria is synonymous now with the brutality of war. Currently, there are more than 5.1 million registered Syrian refugees with another 6.3 million Syrians displaced within the count...
Peace is Breaking Out in Colombia Kimberly Curtis June 29, 2017 Colombia marked a major milestone this week in ending its 52 year-long conflict with FARC when the UN certified disarmament of the rebel group as complete. This is a step -- and a very consequential one -- to...
Refugees who have fled the carnage in Afghanistan are being deported in record numbers Kimberly Curtis June 23, 2017 This has been a particularly bloody "fighting season" in Afghanistan. Now that winter has ended and the opium poppy harvest is over, the annual summer “fighting season” is in full swing in Afghanistan. This ye...
It’s Not Just Syria. A Record Number of Refugees Are Fleeing from New Conflicts. Kimberly Curtis June 20, 2017 Today marks World Refugee Day. Once again, this past year was record breaking for refugees and the forcibly displaced, albeit all the wrong records. The number of forcibly displaced in the world hit a record h...
A Small Cyclone Just Caused Major Damage in South Asia. (Yet Another Reason Trump Should Stick With the Paris Agreement) Kimberly Curtis June 1, 2017 Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Myanmar are facing a major clean up after Cyclone Mora hit the area earlier this week. Overall, government officials estimate that 17,500 houses were destroyed in Bangladesh and search...
