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April 30, 2024

Sustainable Development Goals (UN)
Renewed Efforts are Urgently Needed to Fight Increase in Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting

Without accelerated efforts, there is no chance of getting anywhere close to eliminating FGM/C by 2030. 

Women from the Samburu tribe who escaped from gender based violence play with their children outside a traditional mud dwelling known as Manyatta at the Umoja village where men are restricted, in Samburu near Archers Post in the northern Samburu County, Kenya.
Blog Post by Ann Norris Women Around the World

November 8, 2012

Sub-Saharan Africa
To the Victors Go the Spoils: How Winner-Takes-All Politics Undermine Democracy in Sierra Leone

This is a guest post by Mohamed Jallow, program development specialist at IntraHealth International. He was previously a program associate at the Council on Foreign Relations. Looking at the bitterl…

Sierra Leone's President Bai Koroma's motorcade goes around the national stadium before his inauguration ceremony in Freetown 15/11/2007.
Blog Post by Guest Blogger for John Campbell Africa in Transition

August 4, 2023

Venezuela
Chevron, the Biden Administration, and the Maduro Regime

Concessions to the Maduro regime in Venezuela have permitted Chevron to produce more oil there, but have brought only more repression. 

Blog Post by Elliott Abrams Pressure Points

June 20, 2023

Latin America
Latin America This Week: June 20, 2023

Investment inflows perpetuate Mexico’s north-south divides; Washington fetes Uruguay.

An aerial view shows a part of the Monterrey-Saltillo highway near the land where Tesla will build a new gigafactory, in Mexico’s northern border state of Nuevo León, March 3, 2023.
Blog Post by Shannon K. O'Neil and Will Freeman Latin America’s Moment

July 31, 2014

Sub-Saharan Africa
Health Workers Pay the Ultimate Price in the West African Fight against Ebola

This is a guest post by Mohamed Jallow, grants officer at IntraHealth International, a nonprofit organization that empowers health workers around the world to better serve their communities. A versio…

Medical staff working with Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF) prepare to bring food to patients kept in an isolation area at the MSF Ebola treatment center in Kailahun, Sierra Leone, July 20, 2014 (Tommy Trenchard/Courtesy Reuters).
Blog Post by Guest Blogger for John Campbell Africa in Transition