KABUL, Afghanistan -- Even as President Hamid Karzai beseeched nations at a conference in Germany on Monday to continue aid to Afghanistan for another decade, the American withdrawal from Afghanistan is already being felt among civilian aid workers, raising anxieties that Afghanistan will be abandoned and that the hard-earned development gains will...
LONDON -- Like most business school students, Gui Deng Say didn't set out to change the world. After graduating from the National University of Singapore with a degree in environmental engineering, the 27-year-old decided to stay on and take a master's degree in international management. Because Singapore is a member of CEMS, a global alliance of...
SAY, Niger A CHANCE encounter in a village here between an American medical student traveling with me and a starving African mother was almost too wrenching to handle. The winners of my annual win-a-trip contest, Saumya Dave of Atlanta, the medical student, and Noreen Connolly, a teacher from Newark, traveled with me to a remote village here in...