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![<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping attend a meeting in Beijing, China on September 2, 2025.</p>]()
![Women hold candles during a vigil to honor those killed on January 3 during the U.S. operation to capture Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores, at Bolivar Square in Caracas, Venezuela, January 22, 2026.]()
By Caroline Hubbard![<p>The sun sets over the U.S. Capitol, January 30, 2026.<em> REUTERS/Kylie Cooper</em></p>]()
By James M. Lindsay![<p>A Tanzanian riot police officer walks past a vandalized campaign poster of President Samia Suluhu Hassan at the Namanga One-Post Border crossing point between Kenya and Tanzania on October 30, 2025.</p>]()
By Michelle Gavin- Backgrounder
Argentina’s Struggle for Stability
![<p>A supporter holds up a $100 bill sign of then President-Elect Javier Milei in December 2023.</p>]()
![<p>Peruvian President Dina Boluarte speaks during a press conference after her statement to the prosecutor’s office hearing on an investigation into her possession of expensive jewelry.</p>]()
By Will Freeman- By Benn Steil
![<p> A truck exits after collecting ore from 516 metres below the surface at the Chibuluma copper mine in the Zambian copperbelt region on January 17, 2015.</p>]()
By Michelle Gavin![<p>Electoral workers count votes at a polling station inside a school during the presidential election, in Libreville, Gabon on April 12, 2025.</p>]()
By Michelle Gavin![<p>Côte d’Ivoire President Alassane Ouattara speaks during the African Development Bank annual meeting in Abidjan on May 27, 2025. </p>]()
By Michelle Gavin![<p>Supporters of Burkina Faso’s junta hold Burkinabè and Russian flags as they gather to protest against the arrival of an ECOWAS (Economic Community of West African States) delegation in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, on October 4, 2022.</p>]()
By Ebenezer Obadare![<p>U.S. President Donald Trump takes the oath of office on the day of his Presidential Inauguration at the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol on January 20, 2025.</p>]()
By Ebenezer Obadare- By Steven Levitsky
- By Elliott Abrams
![<p>Vote results are displayed during the Eleventh Emergency Special Session draft resolution meeting in the United Nations General Assembly on the third anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, in New York, United States, on February 24, 2025.</p>]()
By Ebenezer Obadare- Backgrounder
Somaliland: The Horn of Africa’s Breakaway State
![<p>Somaliland’s Independence Monument in Hargeisa depicts a hand holding a map of the area.</p>]()
![<p>People walk past a portrait of Côte d’Ivoire President Alassane Ouattara at the Alassane Ouattara Bridge in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire on January 1, 2025.</p>]()
By Ebenezer Obadare![<p>People line up to vote in South Africa’s elections in Johannesburg.</p>]()
By Diana Roy![<p>Young men prepare a banner of the presidential candidate of Ghana’s ruling New Patriotic Party, Mahamudu Bawumia, ahead of the elections on December 7, in Accra, Ghana on December 2, 2024.</p>]()
By Ebenezer Obadare![<p>Former U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy meet in New York City in September 2024.</p>]()
By Charles A. Kupchan![<p>The United Nations Security Council holds a meeting on the situation in Gaza at the UN headquarters in New York on October 16, 2024.</p>]()
By Ebenezer Obadare
