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The Dark Side: Dead For Dollars; While free-market reforms spur growth, they've also created mining hellholes beyond even weak regulation.(Cover Story)

Byline: Tom Masland A kilometer down the narrow shaft, black dust fills the air. Sweaty young miners stoned on marijuana and the narcotic khat...
Newsweek International, 07/11/05 by Masland, Tom · More from publication
Africa Leaps Forward; Forget Tony Blair and Live 8. The really amazing story is that Africa is starting to recover on its own.(Cover Story)

Byline: Tom Masland Africa can seem hopeless. The continent's 850 million people are poorer today than they were 25 years ago. Largely due to...
Newsweek International, 07/11/05 by Masland, Tom · More from publication
Africa Leaps Forward

Africa can seem hopeless. The continent's 850 million people are poorer today than they were 25 years ago. Largely due to AIDS, average life...
Newsweek, 07/11/05 by Tom Masland · More from publication
The Dark Side: Dead For Dollars

A kilometer down the narrow shaft, black dust fills the air. Sweaty young miners stoned on marijuana and the narcotic khat pick at the walls. They...
Newsweek, 07/11/05 by Tom Masland · More from publication
Fighting Fake Drugs

She injected her insulin as usual and it killed her. Vivian Edomobi, a graduate student, died of hyperglycemia at age 23 in 1987 from a spurious...
Newsweek, 06/02/05 by Tom Masland · More from publication
Tip Sheet

U.S. TRAVEL VACATION LIKE A PRO Fantasy camps have moved beyond baseball and rock bands. Now there's a reality experience for everything....
Newsweek, 04/04/05 by Linda Stern, Sue Caporlingua, Tom Masland · More from publication

A Despot Clings to Power; On the eve of elections, Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe is more vulnerable than ever.

Byline: Tom Masland As night falls, dance music rises from the rural beer hall. Nothing strange about that in backwater Africa, but a special...
Newsweek International, 03/28/05 by Masland, Tom · More from publication
A Despot Clings to Power

As night falls, dance music rises from the rural beer hall. Nothing strange about that in backwater Africa, but a special vibe animates the small...
Newsweek, 03/28/05 by Tom Masland · More from publication
Name of the Father; Walid Jumblatt now leads a unified opposition to Syria.

Byline: Tom Masland Five days after the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri, thousands of people still stand vigil at...
Newsweek International, 02/28/05 by Masland, Tom · More from publication
Name of the Father

Five days after the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri, thousands of people still stand vigil at his candle-bedecked...
Newsweek, 02/28/05 by Tom Masland · More from publication