Peter Obi may have lost the Nigerian presidential election, but he and the movement he leads may yet win the political war.

Today’s announcement by the Nigerian lower legislative chamber partly rescinding last week’s decision to throw out of five key gender-equality bills is a significant victory for women’s rights advocates in the region. It is also evidence that well-coordinated political pressure by civil society organizations can produce real change.

Police assist a newly released prisoner in the meeting hall of Insein Prison in Yangon. (Soe Zeya Tun/Courtesy Reuters) In the past week, the cautious reforms launched this summer and early fall by …

China is a big country, and, at least until recently, it was growing relatively fast. So it stands to reason that it should have been among the most rapidly growing markets for U.S. exports.  The …

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