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Nicholas Bariyo

ARTICLES BY NICHOLAS BARIYO

An internally displaced Congolese woman poses for a photograph with children outside her mud-wall shelter in Fizi territory of South Kivu province, in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo January 30, 2026. REUTERS/Gradel Muyisa Mumbere (REUTERS)

Millions face starvation in Congo. Their new rulers are to blame.

6 min read . 16 Feb 2026

An M23 rebel soldier in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo.

Millions face starvation in Congo. Their new rulers are to blame.

6 min read . 16 Feb 2026

People escaping the civil war in Sudan now need visas to enter Egypt, or run the risk of deportation. (REUTERS)

Now poorer countries are shutting the door on refugees too

5 min read . 01 Dec 2025

Displaced people in Darfur, Sudan, earlier this year. Photo: Reuters

Sudan’s famine enters dangerous new phase

4 min read . 15 Aug 2025

In May, the U.N. food agency ended food distribution to one million refugees in the East African country due to funding shortfalls, largely from U.S. cuts. (AFP)

Refugees in Africa fight over food as US aid cuts take hold

5 min read . 12 Aug 2025

Miners work at the D4 Gakombe coltan quarry in Rubaya, Democratic Republic of Congo. (File Photo: AP)

Africa wants its critical minerals to yield jobs, not just dollars

5 min read . 09 Jul 2025

Rwanda-backed M23 soldiers at a mine in Rubaya in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Photo: Camille Laffont/AFP/Getty Images

While war rages, Congo’s neighbors smuggle out its gold and mineral wealth

6 min read . 08 Apr 2025

Sudan has been mired in war for two years, with 12 million people uprooted from their homes. (Image: Reuters)

World’s newest country teeters on edge of civil war

5 min read . 07 Apr 2025

Scores of militias operate in the wilds of eastern Congo. (REUTERS)

War-torn Congo has a deal for Trump: Kick out rebels, get minerals

5 min read . 19 Mar 2025

The five-story Nyumba Kubwa building in downtown Kampala is managed by Nasr Al Din Sandel, who ensures his tenants, almost exclusively Sudanese, live in harmony. Photographs by Badru Katumba for WSJ

The office building doing what UN hasn’t: Bringing harmony to civil war factions

5 min read . 12 Mar 2025

Fighting last year left a market destroyed in the city of Omdurman, Sudan. (WSJ)

US declares genocide in Sudan. Critics say Biden acted too late.

6 min read . 09 Jan 2025

Vultures are part of a new effort to fight illegal hunting. Jon A. Juarez/Leibniz-IZW

The unwitting environmentalists in the fight against poachers: Vultures

6 min read . 09 Jan 2025

The government is also now taxing vehicles and supplies belonging to the 14,000-strong United Nations peacekeeping force stationed in the country. (Image: AFP)

South Sudan’s economic crisis is so bad it’s taxing its only lifeline

5 min read . 08 Oct 2024

Women and children at the Zamzam displacement camp in Sudan’s Darfur region. Photo: Mohamed Zakaria/Reuters

Eating leaves, knee-deep in water: Inside Sudan’s man-made famine

5 min read . 06 Aug 2024

Migrants on the coast of France waved to a smuggler’s boat in an attempt to cross the English Channel in April. (AFP)

Britain spent millions to send migrants to Africa. So far, just two have gone.

14 min read . 26 Jun 2024

Nearly 10 million Sudanese—more than a fifth of the total population—have been forced from their homes over the past 13 months, including around 2 million who have fled to neighboring countries. (File Photo: Reuters)

Genocide survivors in Darfur are caught in another brutal battle

6 min read . 31 May 2024

A satellite image of a drone manufacturing site in the Alabuga Special Economic Zone in Russia. MAXAR TECHNOLOGIES

The Russian drone plant that could shape the war in Ukraine

8 min read . 28 May 2024

Around 8.5 million Sudanese have been forced from their homes since the start of the war in April 2023. (File Photo: Reuters)

How soda, chocolate and chewing gum are funding war in Sudan

5 min read . 23 May 2024

A Starlink satellite on the roof of a home in Galisteo, New Mexico, US. Photographer: Cate Dingley/Bloomberg (Bloomberg)

Musk’s Starlink cracks down on growing black market

6 min read . 17 Apr 2024

Sudanese refugees wait to validate their food distribution cards at the refugee camp in Adre, Chad. (Photo: Diana Zeyneb Alhindawi for the WSJ)

How two feuding generals drove Sudan to the brink of starvation

5 min read . 15 Apr 2024