Henry Johnson is a fellow at Foreign Policy. He has previously written for LobeLog and graduated from Claremont McKenna College with a degree in history.
Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena listens to an AFP journalist during an interview in Colombo on January 3, 2016. Up to 100,000 people still living in camps six years after the end of Sri Lanka's ethnic war will be given land for homes within six months, President Maithripala Sirisena told AFP Sunday. "It is an ambitious target, but I will see that all the internally displaced people are given land to build homes," the president said in an interview. "I am setting up a mechanism to complete this process within six months." AFP PHOTO / LAKRUWAN WANNIARACHCHI / AFP / LAKRUWAN WANNIARACHCHI (Photo credit should read )
Palestinian children hold posters of Mohammed Halabi (C), the Gaza director of World Vision, a major US-based Christian NGO, during a protest to support him in Gaza City on August 7, 2016.
Israel charged Halabi with having diverted millions of dollars in foreign aid to the Palestinian Islamic movement Hamas and its armed wing.
The Shin Bet internal security service said $7.2 million (6.5 million euros) given to World Vision had been diverted to Hamas each year, with some of it funding the Gaza Strip rulers' military campaign against Israel. / AFP / MAHMUD HAMS (Photo credit should read )
Participants protest against continued violence in Gaza at a demonstration organized by left-wing activists on July 24, 2014 in Berlin, Germany. At least 730 Palestinians and 34 Israelis have been killed since the offensive between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip began 17 days ago. One day prior to the demonstration, the United Nations Human Rights Council voted for the launching of an investigation into potential violations of human rights during the conflict.
LONDON, ENGLAND - JULY 15: An Oddish Pokemon character appears in front of a London taxi during a game of Pokemon Go, a mobile game that has become a global phenomenon, on July 15, 2016 in London, England. The app lets players roam using their phone's GPS location data and catch Pokemon to train and battle.The game has added millions to the value of Nintendo, which part-owns the franchise. (Photo by )
CORRECTING NAME OF THE GULF IN IPTC Members of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard show their skills in attacking a naval vessel during military exercises in the Gulf on April 22, 2010. Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards launched a new "ultra-fast" boat capable of causing high destruction after testing it in a key oil supply route, at the start of a three-day military drill. AFP PHOTO/FARS NEWS/MEHDI MARIZAD (Photo credit should read )
NAURU, NAURU: The barren and bankrupt island state of the Republic of Nauru awaits the arrival of 521 mainly Afghan refugees, 11 September 2001 which have been refused entry into Australia. The 25-square-kilometers of land encompassing Nauru has been devastated by phosphate mining which once made the Micronesian Nauruans the second wealthiest people per capita on earth. AFP PHOTO/Torsten BLACKWOOD (Photo credit should read )
LONDON, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 19: Canadian Mounties await the arrival of Queen Elizabeth II and Duke of Edinburgh to officially reopen Canada House on February 19, 2015 in London, England. (Photo by )
This photo taken on July 23, 2016 shows Jennilyn Olayres grieving beside the dead body of her partner Michael Siaron who was shot by unidentified gunman and left with a cardboard sign with a message "I'm a pusher" along a street in Manila.
Hundreds of people have died since President Rodrigo Duterte won a landslide election in May, promising to rid society of drugs and crime in six months by killing tens of thousands of criminals. Police figures showed this week that 402 drug suspects had been killed a month into Duterte's presidency. This figure does not include those slain by suspected vigilantes. / AFP / NOEL CELIS / TO GO WITH Philippines-crime-drugs-rights,FOCUS by Noel Celis (Photo credit should read )
ERIE, PA - AUGUST 12: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gestures as he arrives to speak to supporters at a rally at Erie Insurance Arena on August 12, 2016 in Erie, Pennsylvania. Trump continues to campaign for his run for president of the United States. (Photo by )
An Indian paramilitary trooper stands guard during a curfew in downtown Srinagar on August 11, 2016.
More than 50 people have been killed and thousands injured in weeks of unrest in Indian-administered Kashmir, sparked by the death on July 8 of popular rebel commander Burhan Wani in a firefight with government forces. / AFP / TAUSEEF MUSTAFA (Photo credit should read )
FAIRFIELD, CT - AUGUST 13: Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump address supporters on August 13, 2016 in Fairfield, Connecticut. Thousands of people in the traditionally Democratic-leaning state came out to see Trump speak at Sacred Heart University. (Photo by )
A young Iranian girl wearing chador passing the murals at the former US embassy in Tehran, now referred as US Den of Espionage. The murals are affirming the evil of the "Great Satan" (the USA). (Photo by In Pictures Ltd./Corbis via Getty Images)
