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August 28, 2012

Sub-Saharan Africa
Guest Post: Sierra Leone: Cholera Outbreak Underscores Need for Public Health Investment

This is a guest post by Mohamed Jallow, a former interdepartmental associate at the Council on Foreign Relations, and now a program development specialist at IntraHealth International. Mohamed is ori…

A cholera patient lies in a treatment centre run by Medecins Sans Frontieres on Macauley Street in Sierra Leone's capital Freetown, August 23, 2012.

October 17, 2014

Conflict Prevention
What Leon Panetta’s Memoir Says About Drone Strikes

Leon Panetta, Worthy Fights (New York, NY: Penguin Press, 2014), pp. 388-391. But the singular preoccupation with drones distracts from the larger context of the struggle we are waging. Yes, the Uni…

Panetta Book

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.

March 11, 2024

Climate Change
A Conversation With Amy Pope

Amy Pope discusses her work as director general of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), and the UN role in addressing climate mobility, legal frameworks for migration, and the present …

Play Amy Pope, the new Director General of the International Organization of Migration sitting against the backdrop of United Nations logo.

December 19, 2023

Ukraine
The Future of the War in Ukraine, With Kori Schake

Kori Schake, a senior fellow and the director of foreign and defense policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss where the fighting in Ukraine is h…

Podcast A Ukrainian artillery brigade fires a howitzer at Russian positions in the Donetsk region on December 16, 2023.

November 28, 2023

Ukraine
Russia Must Be Held Accountable for Alleged Criminal Aggression in Ukraine: Two Paths to Justice

The authors, including a former Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, UN Undersecretary-General for Legal Affairs, Founding Chief Prosecutor of the UN Special Court for Sierra Leone, an…

Flags representing fallen soldiers, including foreign soldiers, are seen in the snow on Independence Square, as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, in Kyiv, Ukraine, on December 22, 2022.

December 12, 2023

Peacekeeping
The Role of Peacekeeping in Africa

Africa continues to have more peacekeeping missions than any other continent. As conflict-stricken countries increasingly look outside the United Nations for support, experts say reforms are necessar…

A peacekeeping vehicle transports troops on a dirt road in the DRC.