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The World Next Week: Libyan Fighting, Nigerian Inauguration, and North Korean Famine

By experts and staff

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  • James M. LindsayCFR Expert
    Mary and David Boies Distinguished Senior Fellow in U.S. Foreign Policy
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan casts his ballot in his home village of Otuke, Bayelsa state on April 16, 2011.
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan casts his ballot in his home village of Otuoke on April 16, 2011. (STR New/courtesy Reuters)

The World Next Week podcast is up. Bob McMahon and I discussed the upcoming UN Security Council debate on Libya; the inauguration of Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan this weekend; the United States’s effort to assess the need for food aid in North Korea; and the French Open, already underway in Paris.

[audio: https://www.cfr.org/content/publications/media/podcast/2011/20110526_TWN…]

The highlights:

Bob and I aren’t the only analysts previewing next week’s news. Afrique en Ligne covers Jonathan’s announcement that he will appoint a cabinet within two weeks of his inauguration, and Agence France Presse reports on UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s recent meetings with Jonathan. The Telegraph discusses surprising new developments in the diplomatic efforts to secure Qaddafi’s departure and an end to violence. Closer to home, the New York Times weighs in on the discord over the U.S. operations in Libya. Reuters asks questions about North Korea’s claims that it is in desperate need of food aid, and on a lighter note, Foreign Policy’s “Passport” pokes fun at Kim Jong Il’s reported food preferences. To stay on top of the French Open news, follow the New York Times’s “Straight Sets” blog. If like me you prefer to watch a hard black rubber puck whiz across the ice rather than a fuzzy yellow ball going back and forth over a net, check out NHL.com or ESPN’s hockey page for all the action.