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Africa
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Intrigue And Drama As Malawians Await Election Results

In a bizarre twist for a country in Sub-Saharan Africa, a governing party is accusing an opposition party of having rigged the election. Unofficial results in Malawi’s elections for president, members of parliament and wa...
by Nicky Armstrong
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Africa

Burkina Faso: The Downfall Of Another Tyrant In Africa

The recent popular revolution in Burkina Faso and the resignation of President Blaise Compaoré has emerged as a ‘warning alarm’ to African tyrants who are bent on eternalising themselves in power. The political crisis in B...
by Albert Mbiatem
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Europe

Portugal’s Lost Generation

Portugal recently reached a staggering 15% unemployment. The very night this information became public, the Portuguese Minister for the Economy, Álvaro Santos Pereira, went on national television to justify how in one year exc...
by Miguel Costa Matos
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Africa

Democracy triumphs in Nigerian elections

Arusha, Tanzania – On the sidelines of the Third Africa-China Youth Forum, everyone is talking about the Nigerian elections. Nigeria, a country that has become a powerful force on the continent, lays claim to being the b...
by Gillion Bosman
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Economy

End the US Census: Is This the Republicans ‘Alice in Wonderland’ Moment?

Unemployment rates, population data and gross domestic product (GDP) – I’m no economist but the collection of this sort of information seems rather important. Well, not according to some Republican Congressmen in the Un...
by Trudy McIntosh
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Middle East
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Hague on Syria, Parliament and Britain’s Place in the World

Yesterday, (September 8th 2013) UK Foreign Secretary William Hague appeared on the leading BBC political and current affairs program – The Andrew Marr Show. Not unsurprisingly, there was only one real topic up for discus...
by Oscar Isham
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Europe

A Mutual Split: Turkey and the EU

Orhan Pamuk’s article, “Europe is turning away from Turkey, and the rest of the world”, pleas for a Europe which engages with Turkey on the basis of enlightenment principles, rather than old-fashioned notions of Islamic e...
by Liam Murray
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Europe
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Somebody Needs To Tell Silvio It’s Time To Go Home

On Saturday November 16th former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi relaunched Forza Italia (Come on Italy), the centre-right party that brought him to power in 1994. The announcement was made during a national convention...
by Mauro Anastasio
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Brazil

Religious Fundamentalism Is Dominating Brazil’s Presidential Elections

The world’s theocratic states might soon gain a new member as evangelical (Christian) fundamentalism threatens to devolve Brazil back to the dark ages.
by Daniele Bassi
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