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In the Land of Kim – Two Years in North Korea by Fragkiska Megaloudi was selected for the June 2025 edition of Publishers Weekly Select, a curated spotlight on noteworthy independent titles from around the world.

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A personal journey through Chad, Niger, Burkina and Nigeria told through photographs and reflections from the field.

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The region is not easily accessible to outsiders, especially in August, when the monsoon floods turn the few available roads into endless rivers of mud.

In the first Buddhist village we pass through, children smile, and the locals look at us with quiet curiosity. For a moment, you almost forget that you are in the heart of one of the most violent intercommunal conflicts in Southeast Asia — until a sign in bold red letters brings you back.

“Visitor, no Muslims allowed here,”

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The late afternoon sun beats down as Khadidja stands on the wall of her brick house and points to the meagre meal she prepared for her family: a dough made of millet with a thin green sauce. “Everything has become so expensive lately," she mutters.

The 40-year-old mother of eight lives in the town of Adré, just 400 metres from the border with Sudan, in Chad's eastern Ouaddai Province. Once a quiet border town of 68,000 inhabitants, Adré's population has more than doubled, as tens of thousands...

Basheer thought he could make it. He was 18, in good health and knew how to swim. But the Evros River crossing takes many victims.

Wet, cold, tired and lost, a mother and son who successfully crossed Evros lay down on the riverbank afterward. Hypothermia killed both. Another family buried their 4-year-old near the river after a train hit her while the family was walking along nearby tracks.

For migrants fleeing violence or seeking better economic opportunities, the Evros River is a major...

Show me the images and I’ll show you the war. Images, news, reviews, rumors, information that looks like advertisement, through clips in our smartphones, only in 30 seconds. Where is the truth? Do we see it? Fragiska Megaloudi is a reporter and writer. She has worked as a lecturer at the department of Cultural Studies in the University of West Australia, from which she resigned in order to work for humanitarian organizations. She has lived and worked in the Middle East, in Southeastern Asia...

IN THE DISPLACEMENT CAMPS dotted around Borno and the neighbouring northeastern states of Yobe, Gombe and Adamawa, finding a path back to self-sufficiency seems even less likely. (more)

Dakar, Senegal – In the lively neighbourhood of Medina in Dakar, horse-drawn carts jingle around crowded buses and makeshift stalls sell everything from clothes to mobile phones.

In a narrow alley, behind a bustling street, noisy beats pulsate from a colourful building, a community centre. (more)

Nearly 20,000 Syrians grapple with squalid conditions in informal tent settlements erected in remote areas of Jordan.

Ramtha, Jordan – In the chilly afternoon, children play among a row of makeshift tents, their wooden frames covered with plastic, cardboard and old rugs.

Five-year-old Randa curls up next to an unlit stove near her family’s tent. (more)

Maiduguri, Nigeria – Kabiru, a tall man in his late 20s, is exhausted. With a group of men, he has to prepare food for about 2,000 displaced Nigerians living in Gombyo camp.

Kabiru, who goes only by one name, pours water in a large pot of rice. His task is to ensure there’s enough firewood and water to keep the rice boiling. It’s hard work, especially under the searing sun in northeastern Nigeria (more)

How can development organizations deliver aid to perhaps the world's most cloistered country? We spoke with former U.N. officials who worked in North Korea and aid workers on the ground to find out. A Devex exclusive.

Yola, Nigeria – Seven-year-old Rada plays barefoot in front of an old house on the outskirts of Yola, a town in northeastern Nigeria’s Adamawa state. She wears a shiny yellow scarf and smiles shyly to strangers.

Nearby sits Rada’s mother, Samira, who looks exhausted. She breastfeeds her baby, who is feverish and weak (more)

Pyongyang, North Korea – It’s rush hour and the once-empty streets of the North Korean capital now show signs of traffic congestion. Expensive cars with tinted windows occasionally pass crowded public buses and trucks crammed with soldiers, prompting traffic officers to raise their hands in a military salute. (more)

The economy of Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) has suffered through decades of international sanctions -that were intensified after the two nuclear tests of 2006 and 2009-and the imposition of extended controls over its economy and trade by the UN Security Council (UNSC).

The health system of DPRK has been one of the most impacted sectors; The North Korean government maintains the policy of military first and spends significant amounts of the country’s meager resources for...

On Iasonos Street in downtown Athens, a popular hangout for drug addicts, 27-year-old Michalis is looking for his dealer to buy his fix.

Like most of Athens’ drug users, he is constantly under pressure from police who, since last year, have tried to push drug users and sex workers out of the city centre. “Police and authorities treat us worse than animals,” Michalis claims (more)

Over recent months the situation in the Mediterranean has served as a dramatic reminder of what the leaders of Europe have tried hard to forget. The Syrian crisis has reached Europe. Although a lot of talk has been made over numbers and percentages of refugees that every country may or may not accept, let’s not forget that behind those numbers and the showy emotionalism of the politicians hides the ugly side of world politics.

The plans to overthrow the “annoying” regimes in the Middle East...

Sie zählen zu den Leidtragenden der hellenischen Krise: Für die Mittelschicht Griechenlands gleicht das Leben einem permanenten Existenzkampf. Die Wut richtet sich auf Europa - und auf die heimischen Eliten, die aus dem Niedergang nichts zu lernen scheinen. More