News stories by Correspondents*

When she was 16, Kibriyo Khaitova’s parents told her that if she didn’t marry, she’d soon be a spinster. So, like many girls from Tajikistan, Khaitova married a man her family found for her. Now 20, she has two children, no husband and is fending for herself.

The cholera crisis is forcing Haitian authorities to address an unpleasant and now life-threatening problem — untreated feces.