By Sara Hassan At JJ Rawlings Avenue in the area of Adenta in Ghana’s capital Accra, 36-year-old Rabiatu Akamim readied meals for her customers. Two years ago, she traded her underpaying corporate communication job to focus on her food joint. Young entrepreneurs like Akamim are struggling with Ghana’s soaring fuel prices, rising food costs and […]
By Anna Pratt When the tiny village of Gjadër in northwestern Albania got word that a migrant detention facility was to be built on a disused military airbase, plenty of locals were dismayed. Aleksander Preka, who runs a local shop and café in the village, said his neighbors were alarmed. They didn’t know what to expect […]
By Layla Melendez The memorial to the Nazi concentration camp at Buchenwald is one of Germany’s darkest reminders of the Holocaust and the Nazi regime that executed it. The historians who oversee the site and other memorials to victims and survivors are determined to use them to make sure their history remains in the past. […]