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International efforts, such as the Paris Agreement, aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But experts say countries aren’t doing enough to limit dangerous global warming.
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February 14, 2012
United States
Guest Post: The Case for U.S. Foreign Aid
Yesterday, the Obama administration released its highly anticipated $3.8 trillion budget proposal for fiscal year 2013, and will begin the process of obtaining Congressional approval for how to alloc…
August 11, 2021
Nigeria
Biafran Separatist Group Issues a Stay-at-Home Order
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has ordered residents of Nigeria’s South East region—largely Igbo-dominated areas of the former Biafra, the break-away territory that tried and failed to establish an independent state during the 1967-70 civil war—to stay at home every Monday until their leader, Nnamdi Kanu, is released from jail.
October 13, 2017
Local and Traditional Leadership
Powerful Rhetoric Gives Insight Into Biafran Independence Narratives
The still unknown whereabouts of Namdi Kanu, a leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has led to public exchanges that provide insight into the mindset of at least some of Biafra's support…
September 8, 2016
Sub-Saharan Africa
“Desire for Theocracy”
Emma Green has published in The Atlantic her interview with Shadi Hamid, author of Islamic Exceptionalism. Her interview amounts to a riff of his book’s arguments. His focus is on why Muslims, especi…
June 21, 2017
Europe
Where Does Italy’s Bank Recapitalization Stand?
Italy is making real progress now. But completing the recapitalization of Monte and the restructuring of the two Veneto banks may not be quite enough.