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Over the last several decades, governments have collectively pledged to slow global warming. But despite intensified diplomacy, the world is already facing the consequences of climate…
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March 10, 2020
Local and Traditional Leadership
How to Understand the Dethronement of an Islamic Ruler in Nigeria
On March 9, Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano state, through a unanimous vote of the Kano state executive council, dethroned Emir of Kano Lamido Sanusi. Soon after the vote, Sanusi was removed from …
December 9, 2016
Sub-Saharan Africa
Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka “Disengages” from the United States
Wole Soyinka, the first African to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature, says he has “torn up” his green card and left the United States to return to Nigeria. Soyinka’s act is in protest against th…
August 6, 2013
Sub-Saharan Africa
Boko Haram’s Abubakar Shekau: Dead Again?
This is a guest post by Jacob Zenn, an analyst of African Affairs for the Washington D.C.-based think tank, The Jamestown Foundation, and a contributor to the West Point CTC Sentinel. On August 1, N…
June 30, 2011
China
In Southeast Asia, Big Dams Raise Big Concerns
A view from upstream of Malaysia's Bakun dam, in the inland of the eastern state of Sarawak on Borneo island, December 11, 2003. (Bazuki Muhammad/Courtesy Reuters) This is a guest post by Prashanth …
July 5, 2017
Egypt
Egypt’s Leader Faces a Crisis of His Own Making—One That Reveals His Nation’s Dangerous Weakness
Two obscure islands that many Egyptians didn't even know about suddenly threaten President Sisi's regime.
