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Category: Africa

Africa/Africa/Comments/Science and Technology

The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam: Approaches to Cooperation and Conflict Resolution

Posted on March 2023 by Ethan Chiu / 0 Comment

Introduction The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) is a massive hydroelectric dam under construction on the Blue Nile River in Ethiopia. Upon completion, t...

Africa/Africa/Global Issue/Middle East

The Ongoing Fight for Abortion Rights in Morocco

Posted on January 2023 by Layla Hedroug

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...

Africa/Comments

Deradicalization and Reintegration as Strategies for Counterterrorism in Somalia

Posted on January 2023 by Nathan Mu

Combating physical threats is challenging enough, but how do you defeat an idea?  This is precisely why countering extremism and terrorism is so difficult....

Africa/Comments/Global Issue

International Criminal Court Addressing the 1994 Rwandan Genocide in 2022 Is it Too Late For Justice?

Posted on November 2022 by Eva Kottou

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...

Africa/Americas/Asia/Comments/Europe/Middle East

Environmental Implications of the Belt and Road Initiative: Geopolitics and Climate Change

Posted on November 2022 by Ethan Chiu / 0 Comment

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 ...

Africa/Africa

An Immediate “Humanitarian Truce” Temporarily Ends Hostilities in Ethiopia’s Tigray Conflict

Posted on April 2022 by Jeremy Williams

***CONTENT WARNING: This Article Discusses Sexual Assault and Rape*** In a surprise announcement this past Thursday, the Ethiopian government led by Prime Minis...

Africa/Africa

No Such Thing as Free Internet

Posted on April 2022 by Adia Keene

In October of 2021, Google announced that it would invest $1 billion into African internet infrastructure over five years[1]. On March 18th of this year, the fi...

Africa/Comments

Power or Water: Ethiopia’s Hydroelectric Dam & Rising Tensions along the Nile River

Posted on April 2022 by Kaleb Assefa

Estimated to cost almost 5 billion dollars at completion and holding 74 billion cubic meters of water at capacity, Ethiopia’s new hydroelectric dam will produce...

Africa

Bracing Against the Tide: ECOWAS and Recent Military Coups in West Africa

Posted on March 2022 by Thomas Lowe

A historical center of global trade, culture, and learning, West Africa is now the world epicenter of military coup d’etats. Over the last seven decades, the re...

Africa/Arts and Culture/Comments

Restitution of African Art: the Recent Wave to Decolonize Museums

Posted on December 2021 by Alexander Hoang

How must one reconcile with the mistakes of the past and the systems created because of them? As you enter the main floor of the Musée du quai Branly in Paris, ...

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