NEW ORLEANS — Louisiana National Guard 1st Lt. Kenrick Cormier has become the first National Guardsmen to graduate from the Belize Defence Force’s Jungle Warfare Instructor Course. But it wasn't easy.

A TINY African girl breaks into a jig as an Arabic pop song gives way to the cheerful soul of Pharrell Williams’s “Happy”, scourge of parents everywhere. It is an incongruous sound for the Jungle, a ...

I am part of a team of academics teaching a course to residents in the Calais Jungle, a camp for migrants and refugees outside the French city. Life Stories in the Jungle has been running since ...