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2 weeks ago | 
fullerproject.org | ALLAN OLINGO |Eliza Anyangwe |Erica Hensley
ADRÉ, Chad—When the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) entered El Geneina, the capital of the Sudanese state of West Darfur, Sadia Adams’s* two brothers knew they had to hide. RSF fighters were systematically exterminating men from the Masalit ethnic group, and their best chance of survival was to disappear and reemerge once fighters from the rogue paramilitary force had departed.
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2 months ago | 
foreignpolicy.com | ALLAN OLINGO |Kamau Maichuhie
NAIROBI—Last September, Ugandan Olympian Rebecca Cheptegei lost her life in Kenya at the hands of an intimate partner. Cheptegei’s partner, Dickson Ndiema, poured petrol on her and set her on fire during a disagreement at their home. Her mother, Agnes, had dreaded this moment for years. NAIROBI—Last September, Ugandan Olympian Rebecca Cheptegei lost her life in Kenya at the hands of an intimate partner.
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Jul 1, 2024 | 
fullerproject.org | ALLAN OLINGO |Jessica Washington
In 2004, Kenya became the first country to abolish point-of-sale taxes on period products, becoming a world leader in addressing so-called period poverty — the inability to access menstrual products and hygienic facilities. Since then, over a dozen other countries have followed suit, according toresearch from Thomson Reuters Foundation. Today, policymakers in Kenya and elsewhere are backtracking, either repealing tax reprieves or introducing new taxation schemes.
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Jun 17, 2024 | 
fullerproject.org | Jodi Enda |Maher Sattar |ALLAN OLINGO
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Jun 14, 2024 | 
fullerproject.org | Maher Sattar |ALLAN OLINGO |Erica Hensley
The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that women in the U.S. may continue to use mifepristone for abortion medications, a drug deemed “essential” by the World Health Organization. The WHO considers mifepristone and misoprostol, which are often used in combination, to be life-saving medications because they give women who live in places that restrict abortion an alternative to dangerous back-alley procedures.
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Jun 10, 2024 | 
fullerproject.org | ALLAN OLINGO |Erica Hensley |Kabona Esiara
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?”, exploring why they were effective in some contexts and not in others. One after another, the experts agreed: when it came to gender quotas, Mexico was a star.
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Jun 3, 2024 | 
fullerproject.org | Erica Hensley |ALLAN OLINGO |Kabona Esiara |Aaron Glantz
Unprecedented rainfall has hit much of eastern Africa over the past nine weeks, causing some of the worst flooding the region has seen in almost two decades. Many had hoped the wet season would bring much-needed relief for a region already reeling from its worst drought in 40 years. Instead, the heavy rains that lashed Kenya, Burundi, Somalia, Rwanda, and Tanzania have caused enormous destruction, with flash floods claiming more than 500 lives and displacing almost half a million people.
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May 29, 2024 | 
fullerproject.org | ALLAN OLINGO |Kabona Esiara |Aaron Glantz
Will the legal fight over a once uncontroversial law disrupt emergency room care for millions of pregnant women? The law at the center of the case is the 1986 Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act or EMTALA. A bipartisan congress passed it and President Ronald Reagan signed it to ensure that all patients have access to emergency services regardless of the ability to pay.
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May 23, 2024 | 
fullerproject.org | Erica Hensley |ALLAN OLINGO |Kabona Esiara |Aaron Glantz
An artificial intelligence (AI) program designed to prevent suicide among U.S. military veterans prioritizes white men and ignores survivors of sexual violence, which affects a far greater percentage of women, an investigation by The Fuller Project has found. The algorithm, which the Department of Veterans Affairs uses to target assistance to patients “with the highest statistical risk for suicide,” considers 61 variables, documents show.
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Apr 25, 2024 | 
fullerproject.org | Zahra Nader |ALLAN OLINGO
Washington, D.C. – Three Fuller Project contributing reporters have been selected as 2024 finalists for excellence in international reporting by the prestigious Livingston Awards, which honor the best reporting and storytelling by young journalists under the age of 35.
