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Tunisia: Between Political Instability, Terrorism and Police Repression

When journalists are arrested because they’ve taken photos for their articles, we ask, where is freedom of expression? When there is denial of accessibility, we ask, where is transparency? When the corrupt hands are out o...
by Aya Chebbi
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Africa

Kenyan Elections: Perspectives from an Inadvertently Unregistered Voter

March 4th will be an historic day for Kenya. We will be electing the president under a new constitutional dispensation. In addition to the president’s post, Kenyans will be selecting the candidates that they want to fill five...
by Eunice Kilonzo
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Africa
International Political Forum

Climate Change Vulnerability in the ‘South’

Africa has contributed the least to global warming among the seven continents, but it is the worst affected by climate change effects and this is projected to get even worse in the future. Adaptation to climate change has faced...
by Daniel Wasonga
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Africa

Boko Haram: Please #BringBackOurGirls

This is going to be an extremely ambitious post. Boko Haram, please #BringBackOurGirls. Or, better still, let them go. Well, you most probably are aware that about 276 school girls in Nigeria were abducted by Boko Haramwho hav...
by Eunice Kilonzo
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Africa

How violence in Libya impacts the oil industry

Politics, power, and oil are tightly intertwined in Libya. To control oil is to hold power, thereby making Libya’s oil infrastructure a hotbed of conflict and violence. Libya’s complicated political landscape is d...
by David Bresnahan-McRae
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Africa

White American Claims to Be Kenya’s First Female Maasai Warrior

Mindy Budgor is an American woman from Southern California who has released a book, “Warrior Princess: My Quest to Become the First Female Maasai Warrior“, detailing her controversial attempt to become the first female Maa...
by Ndesanjo Macha
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Africa
International Political Forum

World Refugee Day: A Day For Mourning

In recognition of World Refugee Day, it is appropriate to acknowledge the trials and tribulations that internally and externally displaced people are forced to endure. Many humanitarian crises seem to stem from economic, resour...
by Jamal Russell Black
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Human Rights

WATCH: Peace vs justice in Uganda

In December 2003, President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda referred the situation concerning the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) to the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. With the cooperation of Ugandan authorities and i...
by Diana Naoum
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Africa

The Relevance of Youth Leagues, Subsidies and Agencies in South Africa

Recent events in the course of South Africa’s social and political process have led many to pose the question as to whether youth leagues, agencies and subsidies are still useful. And indeed, such a question has been raised w...
by Mark Mngomezulu
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