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From Here to Timbuktu: The Case for Intervention

Since April this year, rebels – made up of Tuareg separatists and radical Islamists with links to Al-Qaeda – have gained hold of northern Mali. Boosted by the surplus of weapons plundered from Gaddafi’s stashes and the sk...
by David Rutter
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Gender-Based Violence

Maimuna’s Fight Against FGM

The United Kingdom is one of the international leaders on topics such as Female Genital Mutilation, commonly known as FGM, with many summits on the topic held in London. However, the British government is much less progressive ...
by Charlaine Grosse-Lopez
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Africa

Disorder On The Nile As Power Shifts Towards Ethiopia

Since the fall of Mubarak, Egypt’s political instability and internal strife have severely weakened its once hegemonic status among the East African states. This has seen its neighbours, most notably Ethiopia, begin to outrig...
by Marc Scarisbrick
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Africa

Food, Blankets and Shelter—Only Basic Needs?

Let’s just go ahead and state the obvious—it is much easier for an NGO to market basic needs programs than it is to market programs directed at resolving more complicated issues. Because the more complicated issues (for...
by Tiffany Brittingham
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China-Africa Relations: From Asymmetrical Dependence to Symmetrical Interdependence

Notwithstanding the increase of trade between China and the African Union countries in the last decade, and the large number of Chinese investments in Africa, these relations are mostly to the advantage of the Chinese and thei...
by Ahmed Alqarout
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The State of Water: Ethiopia

Water is the greatest necessity in life; however, consumption of contaminated water is one of the biggest killers in the world. Ethiopia, situated in horn of Africa, a region prone to droughts and subsequent famine, faces acute...
by Daniel Wasonga
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Africa

Guinea-Bissau: The Failed State You’ve Probably Never Heard Of

If popular online quiz website, Sporcle, is anything to go by, there is a chance you have never heard of Guinea-Bissau. Yet the West African state, situated between Senegal and Guinea, has been declared the continent’s first ...
by David Earnshaw
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We Must See Africa Differently

Africa is no longer a collection of failed states beset by regional conflict. A fast growing middle class working white-collar jobs in smart office blocks are changing the continents skyline and the socio-economic reality on t...
by Robert Scott
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Human Rights

Without a home, without a solution: Short-term fixes won’t solve the world’s refugee crises

Recently, a destabilising and disturbing trend has been proliferating throughout all corners of the globe. This year has seen record numbers of refugees fleeing economic hardship, political prosecution, and vicious attacks in c...
by Jamal Russell Black
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