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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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March 6, 2020
Sub-Saharan Africa
Africa Confronts Falling Oil Prices Amid Coronavirus
The new coronavirus has led to a slowdown in economic activity in China and East Asia more broadly. The global price of oil has now fallen to $53 a barrel. This is beginning to affect the oil-exporting countries of Africa. According to Africa Confidential, three-quarters of Nigeria’s and Angola’s oil production ear-marked for export in April is unsold. Similar deficits are reported from Chad, Republic of Congo, and Gabon.
August 16, 2022
Nigeria
Massive Borrowing Puts Nigeria’s Future at Risk
The country’s bloated debt portfolio is the outcome of decades-long economic mismanagement.
June 24, 2016
Iran
Weekend Reading: Between Iran and Saudi Arabia, Bahrain’s Illusions, and Egypt’s Brexit
Reading selections for the weekend of June 24, 2016.
June 18, 2016
Middle East and North Africa
Bahrain Slips Further into Repression
The Project on Middle East Democracy sums up the week in Bahrain: First, "A Bahraini court ordered the suspension of all activities by al-Wefaq, the island-nation’s largest opposition party. The J…
October 9, 2018
Women and Women's Rights
Nobel Peace Prize Highlights War-Time Sexual Violence
This year’s Nobel Peace Prize went to Nadia Murad, a survivor—and activist for other survivors—of sex trafficking by the Islamic State group, and Denis Mukwege, a gynecological surgeon from the Congo…
