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The African Women’s Decade

We Celebrate! My twitter timeline was on fire a couple of weeks ago, just as it was in April when Joyce Banda was sworn in as the commander in chief of Malawi, making her the second female president in Africa, 6 years after Ell...

by Ruth Nyambura

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Imagining a ‘new’ Swaziland

The ultimate yardstick for democracy and multi-party politics in Swaziland, once ushered in, will not be the ousting of an undemocratic government. Rather, it will be the strides taken to liberate the people from grinding pover...

by Mark Mngomezulu

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“Ask Angy” Humanizes the Experience of Undocumented Immigrants

“Isn’t it kind of ironic that we’re undocumented, but you have to prove that you’re undocumented with all these documents?,” Angy Rivera concludes in one of her videos. Angy is a college student born in C...

by Global Voices

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EU Accounts: Are the Eurosceptics Right?

One of the arguments most used by eurosceptics is the fact that the European Court of Auditors (ECA) has refused to sign off the European Union’s accounts for the 18th year in a row. That does sound like a pretty devastating ...

by Thomas Bignal

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When Chemical Weapons & Terrorist Groups Are Better Excuses

The last few weeks have been generous in events and catastrophes, from the Boston bombings to the Iraqi bloodshed, from the attack in Libya against the French embassy to the Somali terror wave and the Iranian devastating earthq...

by Mohamed Belarbi

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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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How Russians Read Putin’s NYT Op-Ed on Syria

It’s not every day that the Russian President pens an opinion piece in the New York Times, but it happened yesterday, and the American blogosphere promptly lost it collective marbles, as tweeting journalists and surprised o...

by Kevin Rothrock

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Wrestling with the Far-Right: Greece, Europe, and Neo-Fascism

On The 18th of September, Giorgos Roupakias, a member of Golden Dawn, stabbed the anti-fascist musician Pavlos Fyssass in the heart. Events have moved rapidly since the brutal street murder. Six MPs including its leader Nikos M...

by Hugh Oberlander

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Regional Reactions To The Iran Nuclear Deal

As Iran’s long standing sworn “nemesis”, the Israeli reaction, voiced through Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, denouncing the P5+1 Iran nuclear deal, claiming that the “agreement has made the world more dangerous�...

by Oscar Isham

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The African Women’s Decade

Imagining a ‘new’ Swaziland

“Ask Angy” Humanizes the Experience of Undocumented Immigrants

EU Accounts: Are the Eurosceptics Right?

When Chemical Weapons & Terrorist Groups Are Better Excuses

Tunisia: Between Political Instability, Terrorism and Police Repression

How Russians Read Putin’s NYT Op-Ed on Syria

Wrestling with the Far-Right: Greece, Europe, and Neo-Fascism

Regional Reactions To The Iran Nuclear Deal

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