author - oman observer

The young girls and boys, wearing colorful scarves, tattered shirts and flip-flops, ran across the dusty ground to form jagged lines and face the teachers at the start of the school day.The children,...

The news he had dreaded arrived a few minutes before midnight.For weeks, Bahaadin Adam had heard nothing from family members stuck in the fighting that convulsed Nyala, the capital of South Darfur...

On the morning Sudan’s rival military forces began fighting, Yasir Algrai was in his studio in the centre of the country’s capital, prepping for another day of work surrounded by paint colors and...

Shortly before midnight on a spring night last year, Samia Suluhu Hassan, then Tanzania’s first female vice-president, appeared on television to announce to a shocked nation that the president was...

NAIROBI: First came the drought, drying up rivers and claiming the lives of two of Ruqiya Hussein Ahmed’s children as her family fled the barren countryside in southwest Somalia.Then came the war in...