In May 2016, Navanti local researchers visited informal Internally Displaced Person (IDP) settlements in Maimusari Ward of Maiduguri, the capital of Nigeria’s Borno State. These photos illustrate life for those IDPs living in the poorest of conditions.
Since it declared independence in 1990, the economy of the 4,000 square kilometer strip of land between Moldova’s Dniester River and the Ukrainian border known as Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic, or simply Transnistria, has been tied to the fortunes of its neighbors and Russia.
In the 1990s, Albania was not likely to be found on a list of top travel destinations. Having emerged from its hermetic dictatorship as the poorest country in Europe, it descended into violent anarchy by 1997. Nearly twenty years later, though, the situation is dramatically different.
Pessimism surrounding the new austerity measures obscures the strength of entrepreneurial micro-businesses in Greece.
As the conflict in eastern Ukraine remains unresolved, refugees from the war-torn communities of the Donbas region are seeking refuge in Estonia. In 2013, Estonia had a population of 23,000 ethnic Ukrainians, comprising the third largest minority group in the country, after Estonians and Russians. In 2014, the Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that Estonia would grant Ukrainian citizens living in Donetsk and Luhansk free, long-term visas. Since the crisis, the number of Ukrainians seeking refuge in Estonia has increased from 675 in 2013 to 1,659 in 2015, making it the largest foreign group to seek residency in Estonia.
While recent battlefield successes against the group’s Libyan stronghold are encouraging, the threat persists, and political dysfunction remains a significant obstacle to stabilizing the country.
Since December 2015, the Islamic Community of Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH), known as the Rijaset, has been in a dialogue with informal religious communities, known as paradzemats, about the legal status of the latter in BiH.