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  • Censorship and Freedom of Expression
    Whither Political Freedoms in Africa?
    When it comes to civil liberties in Africa, Western governments and institutions must put their monies where their mouths are.
    Blog Post by Ebenezer Obadare January 30, 2023 Africa in Transition
  • West Africa
    Climate Change and Conflict in the Sahel
    The African countries of the Sahel stand to be among the most affected by climate change. To help mitigate its effects, Beza Tesfaye argues that the United States should partner with civil society groups and expand climate adaptation and financing efforts.
    Report by Beza Tesfaye November 9, 2022 Center for Preventive Action
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    Where Has COVID-19 Contact Tracing Worked?
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    As part of global efforts to curb the spread of the new coronavirus, health officials have tried a variety of contact-tracing strategies in countries around the world. Some have been success stories; others have been flops, as governments struggled to get buy-in from the public or shore up the resources needed for comprehensive tracing. Here are five countries’ experiences with contact tracing during the COVID-19 pandemic.
    Explainer Video with Claire Klobucista and Thamine Nayeem February 16, 2022
  • Senegal
    Senegal's Democracy Faces a Crisis of Public Trust
    Senegal is easy to admire, but the latest news from Senegal is worrying, and it forces observers to grapple with the country’s complexities and challenges. 
    Blog Post by Michelle Gavin March 12, 2021 Africa Program
  • COVID-19
    Senegal Pilgrimage Tests Resistance to COVID-19
    Senegal is a major center of West African Islam, and its imams, mullah, and brotherhoods are influential across the Sahel. The holy city of Touba, 120 miles east of the Senegalese capital of Dakar, i…
    Blog Post by John Campbell October 8, 2020 Africa in Transition
  • Senegal
    How Remittances From Petit Senegal, a Diaspora Community in New York City, Build Wealth Abroad
    Tareian King is an intern with CFR's Africa Program and a student at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University. She is also the founder of Nolafrique, an e-commerce platform that enables ar…
    Blog Post by Guest Blogger for John Campbell July 1, 2020 Africa in Transition
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
    Secretary of State Pompeo Completes Trip to Africa
    Secretary of State Mike Pompeo recently completed his first trip in his current role to Africa. Over three days, he visited Dakar in Senegal, Luanda in Angola, and Addis Ababa in Ethiopia, where he a…
    Blog Post by John Campbell February 20, 2020 Africa in Transition
  • Iran
    Senegal vs. Iran?
    One of the oddest news stories of the week reported that: Senegal will send 2,100 troops to Saudi Arabia as part of an international coalition combating Houthi rebels in neighbouring Yemen, the West…
    Blog Post by Elliott Abrams May 5, 2015 Pressure Points
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
    For Nigerian Girls Boko Haram Is Not the Only Threat
    This is a guest post by Latanya Mapp Frett, Executive Director of Planned Parenthood Global, the international arm of Planned Parenthood Federation of America. Zahra, a teenage Muslim girl living in…
    Blog Post by Guest Blogger for John Campbell May 5, 2015 Africa in Transition
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
    American Foreign Policy Toward Africa
    For many of us, the American lack of attention toward Africa is short-sighted and frustrating. It is to the great credit of the National Committee on American Foreign Policy that it has devoted the e…
    Blog Post by John Campbell January 2, 2014 Africa in Transition
  • Human Rights
    Standing Up to...Senegal
    In today’s Washington Post, Fred Hiatt notes that Vice President Biden chose not to mention human rights matters when he faced the press alongside the Chinese leader Xi Jinping this week. Hiatt’s col…
    Blog Post by Elliott Abrams December 6, 2013 Pressure Points
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
    President Obama in Africa: Nelson Mandela’s Illness
    President Obama met Nelson Mandela in 2005, when he was a senator from Illinois and speaks of him with glowing terms. Many Africans and Americans had hoped that the president’s trip to Africa would p…
    Blog Post by John Campbell June 28, 2013 Africa in Transition
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    President Obama in Africa: Senegal
    Senegal has never had a military coup, and the opposition won last year’s presidential election. It is also a predominately Muslim nation. President Obama arrived in Senegal the evening of June 26. A…
    Blog Post by John Campbell June 27, 2013 Africa in Transition
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
    The United States and Drug Trafficking in Guinea-Bissau
    This is a guest post by Kyle Benjamin Schneps; a dual master’s degree candidate at Columbia University and junior fellow at the Institute for Strategic Studies in Dakar, Senegal. On 2 April 2013, Jo…
    Blog Post by Guest Blogger for John Campbell June 20, 2013 Africa in Transition
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
    Senegal’s Elections are Good News
    A week following the dark news of a military coup in Mali, Senegal’s presidential runoff is profoundly encouraging for African democrats. Incumbent president Abdoulaye Wade has conceded to, and congr…
    Blog Post by John Campbell March 26, 2012 Africa in Transition
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