Clearing Unexploded Ordnance in Gaza: a huge job that’s already started: Gaza is not a battlefield in patches — it’s one vast, scarred city. That’s what Nicholas Torbet, Middle East director at the Halo Trust, drove home when describing the scale of the problem: unexploded ordnance is everywhere, and that makes clearing the area a mammoth task. But it’s a task that’s already under way, and it will have to be built into every step of rebuilding.
Behind the Barred Windows: How Afghanistan’s War on Drugs Became a Battle for Souls : If you walk through Kabul today, it might look cleaner than it did a few years ago. The parks once filled with men sprawled under the sun, the bridges littered with used needles and broken glass — they’re mostly empty now. Kids are playing again in Shahr-e-Naw Park. But behind the locked doors and barred windows of the city’s rehab centers, another battle rages — one far more complicated than it looks from the outside.
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