Topic

Asylum

Nairobi city skyline at dusk, the city Esther Kisaghu fled and later returned to transform

The Visa That Was Really a Door: How Esther Kisaghu's Escape to Boston Reframes Why Kenyan Women Migrate

She left Nairobi for a Boston classroom to survive her own marriage. Back home, Esther Kisaghu wants migration policy to name what really drives many women abroad.

about 2 months ago5 min

Travellers wait with luggage inside the departure hall of an East African international airport terminal.

World

The Layover With No Return: How Washington's Deportation Detour Through Ghana Reached an African Court

Lawyers have hauled Ghana before West Africa's top court over Africans the United States expelled to a country none of them called home. For the diaspora, it reads like a warning.

about 2 months ago6 min

The hemicycle of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, where new EU migration and return rules were approved.

World

The Waiting Room at the Edge of Europe: Why Kenya Is Being Eyed as the Continent's Deportation Address

about 2 months ago5 min

The hemicycle of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, where lawmakers approved the bloc's tougher migrant return rules.

Politics

The Country Europe Wants to Borrow: Why Kenya Has Become a Candidate to Hold the Migrants the EU Sends Away

2 months ago5 min