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Growth of the Al-Shabaab movement in Kenya

Kenya’s Minister for Internal Security George Saitoti in 2011 said, “Our territorial integrity is threatened with serious security threats of terrorism. We cannot allow this to happen at all………R...
by Samson Faboye
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Caitlyn Jenner: The figurehead the Trans community deserves?

The dust has finally began to settle on Caitlyn Jenner’s transition to womanhood. Through the snippets of carefully choreographed dialogue, we have finally started to see Jenner’s role in shining light on transgende...
by Vincent Gillan
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Human Rights

Radovan Karadžić: The Other Side of the Glass

Guided by a security guard, we entered a room with a glass partition dividing the observers from the courtroom filled with red robed judges and black robed lawyers. The defense advisors of the Republic of Srpska’s former...
by Virginia Winslow
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Immigration: The blame game

With lavish promises on controlling immigration dominating the news in this election, one migrant to the UK writes that it’s about time the UK got real about immigration and the free movement of people. If 28 European countri...
by Elena Nikulicheva
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Of Trading Partners, Integration and the East African Community

With various interconnectivity projects between Uganda and Tanzania; Ethiopia and Kenya and Kenya and Rwanda, the region has taken action to improve trade competitiveness through the improvement of regional hard and soft infras...
by Eunice Kilonzo
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World Water Day – Palestine’s West Bank Running Dry

Another year has passed and 1 billion people in the world still don’t have access to clean water. The struggle for manhood’s most basic resource has earned a day in its honour. In the Middle East, specifically the Levant, w...
by Yara Al Wazir
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Don’t Forget Japan: December Elections Could Renew Tensions

For the last few weeks, Asian relations seem to have been put on hold. Tensions over territory and resources which dominated attention over the summer receded into the background as attention turned first to the United States, ...
by Matthew Barnes
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The culture of Korea’s university festivals: A South Korean student’s perspective

With a dazzling display of a riot of color, blasting music from amps and thousands of people milling about, it is impossible not to notice the school festival when event takes place. Robert J. Fouser, a former professor of Kore...
by Yaerin Ku
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US-Iran Talks: Nuclear Flirting

Since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, few countries have challenged Iran’s ‘international villain’ status. The United States is the loudest champion of this animosity and mutually demonizing rhetoric. The word ‘...
by Mohamed Firas Arfaoui
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