Algerians Don’t Appreciate the Audacity
For decades, Algerians have proudly chanted the slogan “One, Two, Three – Viva l’Algerie!” in the face of adversity. Yet even this slogan, which has...
Category: Africa
Energy Apartheid: Planned Power Cuts Shine a Light on Electricity Inequality
Scheduled power cuts, commonly known as load-shedding , have threatened the political and economic stability of South Africa since 2008. The state-owned power u...
Déby After Déby: Violent Protests in Chad Expose Corruption in Military-Led Government
Citizens of Chad awoke, on the morning of October 21, 2022, to carnage in the streets. The stains of a bleeding democracy could not be washed out overnight. Onl...
Africa and the Monopolization of GM Technology
Amid the Green Revolution of the mid-20th century and the growing voice of global actors, innovations across the agricultural sector gave hope to the idea of en...
Exploring the Major Influences on Government Behaviour and Achievements
Introduction: “The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government” (Jefferson 1809). Th...
The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam: Approaches to Cooperation and Conflict Resolution
Introduction The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) is a massive hydroelectric dam under construction on the Blue Nile River in Ethiopia. Upon completion, t...
The Ongoing Fight for Abortion Rights in Morocco
Moroccan protestors gathered outside of parliament in Rabat with hundreds of signs that read “We are all Meriem.” Meriem was the latest victim of Morocco’s stri...
Deradicalization and Reintegration as Strategies for Counterterrorism in Somalia
Combating physical threats is challenging enough, but how do you defeat an idea? This is precisely why countering extremism and terrorism is so difficult....
International Criminal Court Addressing the 1994 Rwandan Genocide in 2022 Is it Too Late For Justice?
According to the International Criminal Court, genocide is an act led with a “specific intent to destroy in whole or in part a national, ethnic, racial, or reli...
Environmental Implications of the Belt and Road Initiative: Geopolitics and Climate Change
In his 1958 campaign speech, former United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower declared, “We are busily engaged in the construction of a gigantic road system ...