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May 24, 2013

Sub-Saharan Africa
Mapping the Nigerian State of Emergency

Emily Mellgard coauthored this post. Emily is the Africa research associate at the Council on Foreign Relations. Information about the state of emergency in the three northern Nigerian states of Bor…

Soldiers from Lagos, part of an expected 1,000 reinforcements sent to Adamawa state to fight Boko Haram Islamists, walk near trucks as they arrive with the 23rd Armoured Brigade in Yola May 20, 2013.

September 18, 2017

United States
Happy 70th Birthday to the U.S. Air Force!

The United States Air Force marks seventy years of service.

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February 21, 2014

China
Friday Asia Update: Top Five Stories for the Week of February 21, 2014

Lauren Dickey, Darcie Draudt, Charles McClean, Will Piekos, and Sharone Tobias look at the top stories in Asia today. 1. UN releases report on North Korean human rights violations. The United Nation…

Kirby, Chairperson of the Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in North Korea holds a copy of his report during a news conference at the United Nations in Geneva

December 1, 2016

China
China’s New Two Child Policy: Too Little, Too Late

Joan Kaufman is the director for academics at Schwarzman Scholars. I have been closely watching China’s population policy for about forty years and arrived in China for my first work stint (with th…

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February 12, 2012

Iran
Turning Point in Bahrain

February 14 will be the anniversary of the date when demonstrations began in Bahrain last year. More demonstrations will mark the date, and violence is feared. No events connected to the so-called “…