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Category: Africa

Africa/Africa/Global Issue/Middle East

Algerians Don’t Appreciate the Audacity

Posted on April 2023 by Layla Hedroug

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...

Africa/Africa/Comments

Energy Apartheid: Planned Power Cuts Shine a Light on Electricity Inequality

Posted on April 2023 by Mumtaz Mohamood

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...

Africa/Comments

Déby After Déby: Violent Protests in Chad Expose Corruption in Military-Led Government

Posted on April 2023 by Elizabeth Dejanikus

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/Comments/Science and Technology

Africa and the Monopolization of GM Technology

Posted on April 2023 by Alexander Hoang

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...

Africa

Exploring the Major Influences on Government Behaviour and Achievements

Posted on April 2023 by Saghaar Wright

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...

Africa/Africa/Comments/Science and Technology

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

Posted on March 2023 by Ethan Chiu / 1 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 / 1 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 ...

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