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October 13, 2023

Cybersecurity
Cyber Week in Review: October 13, 2023

Social media flooded with bad information on Israel-Hamas conflict; Google mitigated largest DDoS attack ever; Chinese programmer fined for VPN use; Vietnam used Predator spyware against U.S.; IGF me…

Palestinians inspect the ruins of Watan Tower, which was destroyed in Israeli strikes, in Gaza City.

June 11, 2012

Syria
Syria: False Glimmers of Hope?

Yesterday there were two interesting Syria pieces in the Sunday papers.  The Washington Post ran a story by Liz Sly—who, by the way, has been killing it on Syria for months—about the increasing capac…

Syria-False-Glimmers-of-Hop

August 19, 2014

Sub-Saharan Africa
Ten Books for Approaching Religious Conflict in Nigeria

The Tony Blair Faith Foundation has just published Emily Mellgard’s “Must Reads on Religious Conflict in Nigeria.” As Mellgard observes, Nigeria has a rich literary tradition, and the Lagos Internat…

Achebe

March 27, 2015

Sub-Saharan Africa
Nigeria’s Elections: The Space Created by Waiting

This is a guest post by Emily Mellgard. Emily is a researcher for the Tony Blair Faith Foundation working on their online resource religionandgeopolitics.org in London, England, and a former research…

Emily Election Blog

May 15, 2020

Malawi
Averting a COVID-19 Disaster in Malawi and Building Back Better

One of the poorest countries in Africa, Malawi is vulnerable to the COVID-19 pandemic. It has a high population density, many have underlying health conditions, and a weak a public health system. The pandemic will also exacerbate Malawi's food insecurity.

A woman bends over as she plants sweet potatoes in rows in a small plot of cleared dirt. About half the patch as been planted so far. In the distance are green fields dotted with small trees with mostly round crowns. The sky is blue with white, puffy clouds. The horizon curves.