Africa
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Interview: Belt and Road Initiative a platform to build a community with a shared future for mankind — Cypriot expert
NICOSIA, June 21 (Xinhua) — Promoting peace and cooperation, openness and inclusiveness, mutual learning and mutual benefit around the world,…
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Traumatising treatment of Rwanda detainees akin to torture, say human rights lawyers
Asylum-seekers who had been due to be deported to the east African country on Tuesday night were put in restraints,…
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Ethiopia’s Invisible Ethnic Cleansing
For more than a year and a half, a largely invisible campaign of ethnic cleansing has played out in Ethiopia’s northern…
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UK: Rwanda deportation flight set to go ahead after court rejects appeal
A last-minute bid to halt deportations of asylum-seekers to Rwanda failed on Monday after the Court of Appeal in London dismissed attempts…
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Kenya’s 2022 Election: High Stakes
It will be hard-fought. ICG To avert the violence that has marred past contests, the two candidates should pledge to…
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Home Office offers asylum seekers choice between war zones they fled and Rwanda
The Home Office is offering to fly asylum seekers back to the conflict zones they escaped from if they do not wish…
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Principles or Pragmatism? How to React to West Africa’s Slew of Coups
Though unconstitutional, those power grabs garnered significant popular support, embodying the failure of democratically–elected governments in that part of the world. Rinaldo Depagne Georgetown Journal of International…
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A Welcome Chance for a Reset in Somalia
In this Q&A, Crisis Group expert Omar Mahmood looks at the challenges confronting the new chief executive and suggests some…
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The man turning mud into eco-friendly ‘concrete’
Gnanli Landrou has invented a special powder that can turn earth and water into a solid building material. It’s inspired…
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The Rise of NATO in Africa
But this is not the only attempt at expansion by NATO, a treaty organization created in 1949 by the United…
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Kenya petitions royal family for reparations over colonial atrocities as government declines meeting
More than 100,000 citizens of Kenya have petitioned the British royal family for an apology and reparations following “brutal” atrocities committed during the colonial period. Nadine White Independent The…
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It’s time to make amends for the crimes of the empire
Britain’s public apology and reparations to Kenya’s Kipsigis and Talai victims is long overdue. It is vital that we keep…
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Friday essay: hunger, dust-storms, war – how I defied the odds as a South Sudanese child refugee
I am South Sudanese by birth, Kenyan by migration and life experience, and Australian by migration and citizenship. Akuch Anyieth…
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Kenya’s drought hits children the hardest
The drought in Kenya threatens the survival of Turkana communities Kossivi Tiassou Deutsche Welle Many children suffer from malnutrition and…
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Managing Vigilantism in Nigeria: A Near-term Necessity
Yet there are dangers. ICG Authorities should better regulate these groups, while working to restore citizens’ trust in the police.…
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Building on Ethiopia’s Fragile Truce
As the belligerents take tentative steps toward peace, the first order of business is to surge humanitarian aid into Tigray…
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