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November 10, 2022

Defense and Security
Happy 247th Birthday to the United States Marine Corps!

The United States Marine Corps marks 247 years of service. 

Marine Corps Sgt. Anthony T. Ruiz on a training exercise
Blog Post by James M. Lindsay The Water's Edge

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…

USAID Relief Supplies
Blog Post by Emma Welch Politics, Power, and Preventive Action

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.

A man, out of focus in the back of the picture while speaking on a mobile phone, holds up a picture of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, wearing an official military uniform.
Blog Post by John Campbell Africa in Transition

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…

Biafra-Nigeria-Secession-Kanu
Blog Post by John Campbell Africa in Transition