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Category: Africa

Africa/Essays/Spring Issue

Addressing Conflict-Related Sexual Violence: Efficacy of National Action Plans in Liberia and Côte d’Ivoire

Posted on April 2021 by Elizabeth Doney

Abstract Twenty years after the passage of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325, conflict-related sexual violence remains a persistent problem. In th...

Africa/Comments

Impasse in the 2021 Somali Elections: A Grave Threat to Somalia’s Fragile Democracy

Posted on April 2021 by Yusra Mohamed

In the capital city of Mogadishu, at least 20 people were killed or injured due to conflict between government forces and protestors that took place in the morn...

Africa/Africa/Comments

Neocolonialism in Action: Vaccine Acquisition and Hesitancy in the West and Sub-Saharan Africa

Posted on March 2021 by Roaa Shaheen

Amidst the cries for proper prevention protocols and the cycle of false alarms and viral resurgence, a new player has emerged in the global struggle against COV...

Africa/Americas/Comments

The Dangers of Private Policing: Lessons from South Africa

Posted on January 2021 by Amelia Pollard

The recent physical assault of French music producer Michel Zecler makes one thing clear: police brutality is a transnational issue. This year, incidents of pol...

Africa/Comments

Ethiopian Tigray Crisis Threatens Stability in Horn of Africa

Posted on November 2020 by Dominique Castanheira

Escalating violence between the national army and those loyal to the northern Tigray region has brought the threat of civil war to Ethiopia and instability to t...

Africa/Comments

#EndSARS: Amplifying Young Nigerian Voices

Posted on November 2020 by Dominique Castanheira

On October 11, 2020, the Nigerian police force announced the dissolution of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, a corrupt police unit known as SARS. The announcemen...

Africa/Asia

The Beijing Consensus and African Autonomy

Posted on August 2020 by Jessie Yin

The Beijing Consensus and African Autonomy Abstract             When trying to uncover the effects of Chi...

Africa/Comments

Shifting Justitial-Prophetic Roles of Churches and the Unfinished Business of National Reconciliation in South Africa

Posted on April 2020 by Ankushi Mitra

When the missionaries came to Africa, they had the Bible and we had the land. They said ‘Let us pray.’ We closed our eyes. When we opened them, we h...

Africa/Comments/Weekly Update

Life Beyond the Trash: The Story of E-waste in Agbogbloshie

Posted on February 2020 by Adoma Addo

Sub-Saharan Africa Desk Written by: Adoma Addo, Berkeley College ’23 Accra is a city of contradiction, from the kente-patterned skyscrapers in Airport Cit...

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YRIS Acheson Prize Issue

The Yale Review of International Studies is currently soliciting submissions for our annual Acheson Prize Issue. The author of the winning essay will receive a monetary prize of $700, second place will receive $300, and third place will receive $200. We are accepting any essay related to international affairs under 40 pages double spaced. A panel of Yale professors will judge the essays, and the competition is exclusively open to Yale undergraduates. Students can submit their essays by email to yris@yira.org. Submissions are due on April 15.

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