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June 17, 2020

Cybersecurity
Virtual Roundtable: Cyber Attacks in the Age of COVID-19

Panelists discuss the rise of cyber attacks during the race for a COVID-19 vaccine, the role of various actors in carrying out these attacks, and their geopolitical consequences.   ANDERSON: Good…

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December 19, 2014

Sub-Saharan Africa
Corruption and “Sharing Nigeria’s Cake”

In the BBC News Letter from Africa series, Nigerian writer and novelist Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani analyzes a nexus between politics, culture, and corruption. She shows that political office confers “a k…

Nigeria Market

March 31, 2016

Sub-Saharan Africa
Therapy for a Broken Nigerian Community

The consequences of the brutal war between Boko Haram and the Nigerian security services will be with us for a long time. In the BBC’s series, “Letter from Africa,” Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani describes h…

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July 18, 2019

Pakistan
Pakistan, Terrorism, and Meeting Trump

Yesterday news broke that Pakistani police had arrested Hafiz Saeed, founder of the UN- and U.S.-designated terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba.

File photo: Supporters shower Hafiz Saeed with flower petals as he walks to court in Lahore, Pakistan, in November 2017. The court released him from house arrest.

October 16, 2019

Nigeria
The Legacies of Slavery in Nigeria’s Igboland

The year 2019 marks four hundred years since the beginning of African slavery in America, when Dutch privateers sold the first African slaves to the fledgling English settlement at Jamestown, Virgini…

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