Sub-Saharan Africa
Benin
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Buhari Orders Land Borders Closed in Long-Running Effort to Boost Rice ProductionIn August, President Muhammadu Buhari ordered closed Nigeria’s land border with Benin, preventing the import of goods. The move significantly affected trade in foodstuffs, which had already been affe…
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Confronting Africa's Role in the Slave TradeAdaobi Tricia Nwaubani has written a sensitive essay, published in the Wall Street Journal, on the African role in the trans-Atlantic and trans-Saharan slave trade. She observes that the four-hundred…
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Coastal West Africa Now Facing Islamist Extremist ThreatAdam Valavanis is a former intern with the Africa Program at the Council on Foreign Relations. He received a master’s degree in conflict studies from the London School of Economics and Political Scie…
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Macron Leads Renewed Calls for Return of Looted African ArtifactsA report commissioned by French President Emmanuel Macron recommends that France should return to Africa art and artifacts held in French cultural institutions. It characterizes the collections as pa…
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African Development RevisitedThis is a guest post by Owen Cylke. Mr. Cylke is a development professional and a retired senior foreign service officer with USAID. A spate of press articles over the past several months speculate …
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Piracy in the Gulf of GuineaA U.S. Navy boat patrols the waters of Nigeria's Lagos harbour, March 24, 2009. (Akintunde Akinleye/Courtesy Reuters) Such has been the increase in piracy that London-based insurers Lloyd’s Mark…