Sally Hayden

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How Misinformation Is Making It Almost Impossible to Contain the Ebola Outbreak in DRC

If Florida Kayindo hadn’t contracted Ebola herself, she wouldn’t believe that it existed. The 36-year-old grins with bemusement thinking about all the rumors she’s heard. “In the beginning people thought Ebola wasn’t a real illness,...

By Sally Hayden June 20, 2019

The Battle to Save Congo

Outside a brown cement house in the eastern city of Beni in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, a government-employed psychologist is telling 19-year-old Merveille Mwenze that her husband has tested positive for Ebola. She’s...

By Sally Hayden June 19, 2019

The Families of Migrants Held Hostage Are Using Facebook to Raise Money for Smugglers’ Ransoms

With thousands of migrants held captive in Libya, their friends and families are increasingly turning to Facebook to raise hefty ransoms

By Sally Hayden February 5, 2019

This Small Hungarian Town Has Banned 'Gay Propaganda' to Become a Far-Right Refuge

It’s been two weeks since Anna Kiss was summoned to a police station in Szeged, a city in southern Hungary, and asked to rat on her friends. As she ardently tried to argue that a...

By Sally Hayden / Szeged, Hungary March 2, 2017

Could 'Brexit' Unite Ireland? The North Isn't So Sure

The people of Northern Ireland were "agnostic" about the vote. Now, they're wondering what it could mean

By Sally Hayden / Belfast July 19, 2016
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