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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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November 8, 2018
Cameroon
Cameroon's Future Looks Grim as Biya Begins Another Term
On November 4, two days before Biya’s inauguration, seventy-eight students, the principal, and two staff members were kidnapped from a Presbyterian school near Bamenda, in the Anglophone part of the country. On November 7, officials reported that the seventy-eight students were freed the day before, as was a staff member. As of November 8, the principal, a teacher, and perhaps more children, were still in captivity.
January 25, 2024
Gabon
Gabon’s Balancing Act
Gabon’s transitional government struggles to make the case for readmission into regional and global institutions.
October 19, 2018
Cameroon
Cameroon's Future Uncertain Despite Biya's Impending Election Victory
As Cameroon-watchers await the official results of this month’s elections, the outcome is highly predictable—victories for the ruling Cameroon People’s Democratic Movement (CPDM) and for the long-serving incumbent president, eighty-five-year-old Paul Biya. But the country’s future is utterly uncertain.
April 15, 2024
Japan
Prime Minister Kishida’s Tour de Force
The highlights from Kishida Fumio's busy week in Washington.
December 27, 2022
Climate Change
What Climate Change Means for Central America, With Paul J. Angelo
In this special series of The President’s Inbox on climate change, Paul J. Angelo, the director of the William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies at the National Defense University, sits…
October 11, 2022
Cybersecurity
Cyber Collaboration in the Age of Hybrid Warfare: A Conversation With Jen Easterly and Paul Nakasone
Panelists discuss the collaboration of federal agencies to bolster cyberspace defensive and offensive capabilities in order to protect the United States.
April 10, 2024
Genocide and Mass Atrocities
Remembering the Rwandan Genocide
Thirty years ago, Rwanda’s government began a campaign to eradicate the country’s largest minority group. This Why It Matters episode discusses how in just one hundred days, 800,000 people in Rwanda were killed, while the rest of the world sat on the sidelines.
