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    Global Climate Agreements: Successes and Failures

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    How New Tobacco Control Laws Could Help Close the Racial Gap on U.S. Cancer

    This interactive examines how nationwide bans on menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars, as proposed by the Biden administration on April 28, 2022, could help shrink the racial gap on U.S. lung cancer death rates.

    Interactive by Olivia Angelino, Thomas J. Bollyky, Elle Ruggiero and Isabella Turilli February 1, 2023 Global Health Program

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    Social Justice Webinar: Social Safety Nets

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    Virtual Event with Chris Howard, Chris Howard and Arohi Pathak February 23, 2023 Religion and Foreign Policy Webinars

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    C.V. Starr & Co. Annual Lecture on China: Frayed Relations—The United States and China

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    Panelists discuss the relationship between the United States and China, how confrontational and sometimes false narratives in both countries are affecting it, and how the governments of both countries might respond to the escalation of tensions. 

    Virtual Event with Ivan Kanapathy, Bonny Lin and Stephen S. Roach February 13, 2023 C.V. Starr & Co. Annual Lecture on China

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    Jail Term for Former Liberian Defense Minister Offers Ray of Hope to Anti-Corruption Forces in Africa
    A Liberian court ruling against former Liberian Defense Minister Brownie Jeffrey Samukai Jr. is a rare recent piece of good news for democracy in West Africa. 
    Blog Post by Ebenezer Obadare January 31, 2022 Africa in Transition
  • Women and Economic Growth
    A Place of Her Own: Women’s Right to Land
    This blog was coauthored with Alexandra Bro, a research associate at the Women and Foreign Policy program at the Council on Foreign Relations. Last month, Liberian women activists marched to the p…
    Blog Post by Meighan Stone and Guest Blogger for Women Around the World May 21, 2018 Women and Foreign Policy Program
  • Liberia
    Liberia’s Johnson-Sirleaf Awarded the Mo Ibrahim Prize for African Leadership
    The Mo Ibrahim Foundation awarded its prize for African leadership to Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the former president of Liberia. The foundation’s prize committee stated that Sirleaf had shown exceptiona…
    Blog Post by John Campbell February 16, 2018 Africa in Transition
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    How Liberia’s New Generation Of Female Entrepreneurs Is Revitalizing The Economy
        As a child, Odelia Acolyte fled her home of Liberia to neighboring Nigeria to escape the bloodshed of civil war. But she returned home frequently to visit family and always felt that what…
    Blog Post by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon April 14, 2017 Women Around the World
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
    Ebola and Marburg
    Ebola and Marburg are both hemorrhagic fevers and belong to the same family of viruses. The hosts for both are identified as animals, especially fruit bats—both diseases cross over from animals to hu…
    Blog Post by John Campbell October 21, 2014 Africa in Transition
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
    Ebola in the Congo
    The health minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Felix Kabange Numbi, has announced an outbreak of the Ebola virus in the remote Equateur province. Two cases have been confirmed by …
    Blog Post by John Campbell August 26, 2014 Africa in Transition
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
    Ebola “a Complete Disaster”
    This is the conclusion of Dr. Joanne Liu, MD, president of Doctors Without Borders (Medicins Sans Frontieres-MSF). Her interview in the New York Times is a compelling must-read for those watching Ebo…
    Blog Post by John Campbell August 21, 2014 Africa in Transition
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
    Health Workers Pay the Ultimate Price in the West African Fight against Ebola
    This is a guest post by Mohamed Jallow, grants officer at IntraHealth International, a nonprofit organization that empowers health workers around the world to better serve their communities. A versio…
    Blog Post by Guest Blogger for John Campbell July 31, 2014 Africa in Transition
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
    "New Deal” Has Potential to Provide New Solutions for Fragile African States
    This is a guest post by Hamish Stewart, a co-founding Director of the Centre for African Development and Security. The world is optimistic about Africa’s future, but to unlock its economic potential…
    Blog Post by Guest Blogger for John Campbell April 23, 2013 Africa in Transition
  • Liberia
    A Conversation with Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
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    GEORGE RUPP: I'm very pleased to welcome all of you to this Council on Foreign Relations meeting with the president of the Republic of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. I have the usual housekeeping …
    Event with Ellen Johnson Sirleaf September 28, 2012
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
    Charles Taylor Sentenced - a Step Forward?
    In April, the Special Court for Sierra Leone in The Hague found Charles Taylor guilty of many crimes against humanity related to his involvement with the civil war in Sierra Leone. (Taylor was not tr…
    Blog Post by John Campbell May 31, 2012 Africa in Transition
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
    Gay Rights in Africa
    Unfortunately, much of sub-Saharan Africa is homophobic. Recent legislation, some proposed, some passed, condemns gay marriage and sometimes outlaws gay sexual activity. Nigeria, Uganda, and Liberia …
    Blog Post by John Campbell February 10, 2012 Africa in Transition
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    Liberia Moving Forward
    Supporters of Liberia's opposition Congress for Democratic Change party gather under a tree for political discussions as election results are announced in the capital Monrovia, November 10, 2011. (Fi…
    Blog Post by John Campbell December 13, 2011 Africa in Transition
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
    Liberia’s Electoral Stand-off
    Nigerian United Nations peacekeepers try to disarm a Liberian riot policeman who fired live rounds while storming the compound of the opposition Congress for Democratic Change headquarters in the cap…
    Blog Post by John Campbell November 15, 2011 Africa in Transition
  • Wars and Conflict
    Taking Stock of Conflicts in Colombia, Liberia, Bosnia, and Afghanistan: Women, War & Peace
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    This meeting was presented by the International Institutions and Global Governance Program and the Women and Foreign Policy Program.
    Event with Abigail E. Disney November 14, 2011 Women and Foreign Policy Program
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