Africa
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I stood in that hallway. I could have been standing in the middle of a four-lane expressway with cars zooming past me at 100 miles per hour and it wouldn’t have mattered. I was somewhere out in the wild. And if it all felt so foreign and a bit unnerving, maybe it was because I
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A few weeks ago, French military forces intervened in the West African nation of Mali to save the country from totally falling into the hands of Islamist extremists. We know this because these extremists, who for months have hijacked the northern part of the country from the internationally recognized government in Bamako, south of the