Allan Olingo is The Fuller Project's East Africa Bureau Chief, based in Nairobi. With over a decade of experience in print and digital media, Allan has established himself as a leading voice in human ...

Women and children wait outside the Vyongwani Maternity clinic, in Kwale County, Kenya. As the end date of the Trump administration’s foreign aid ‘stop-work’ order approaches, just how dependent were ...

Against the backdrop of calls for Africa to seize this opportunity to rethink its reliance on aid, the Government of Kenya says it needs $522.16 million to sustain primary healthcare, procure ...

In June 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the landmark abortion decision Roe v.Wade, which for nearly 50 years recognized a nationwide, constitutional abortion right.The 6-3 decision in Jackson ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks at a rally in Duluth, Georgia, in October. (Photo by Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images) Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to ...

The U.S. has banned imports from Asli Maydi, the Somali company that until 2023, supplied frankincense oil to the popular U.S. essential oils brand doTERRA, over the use of forced labor. The ban ...

Jaywant Sugars Ltd. in Karad, India, before the start of the sugar season, in September. (Saumya Khandelwal for The New York Times) Earlier this year, our investigation with The New York Times into ...

In the sweltering sugar fields of the western Indian state of Maharashtra, abusive practices such as debt bondage and child labor have long been an open secret. But in 2019, a state lawmaker named ...

Buying gems from a country such as Botswana can buy one a clean conscience, claimed a 2015 Time magazine investigation into blood diamonds. In an industry historically beset by violence, smuggling and ...

People gather to stage a demonstration against the Financial Bill for 2024 and tax increases as they march towards the parliament building in Nairobi, Kenya on June 18, 2024. (Photo by Gerald Anderson ...

Mexico has elected its first woman president. It’s a campaign we’ve followed with great interest. In our Full Story column with Foreign Policylast June, we asked “do gender quotas in elections work?”, ...

A trader displays used clothes for sale at her stall at Owino market in Kampala, Uganda in April 2024. (Esther Mbambazi for The Fuller Project). At Kampala’s sprawling Owino market, Millicent Mukwezi ...