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The Jasmine Revolution: Seven Years Later
Seven years after Tunisians fought to depose longtime dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, a revolution that…
McMUN 2018: Kenya’s 2017 Elections Mirror 2007…
On August 8th 2017, Kenyan voters went to cast their votes for either Raila Odinga of the ODM or Uhuru Kenyatta of…
Flashback: The Implications of Angola’s Civil War
While the Angolan Civil War ostensibly began as another proxy war between the Soviet/Cuban-supported MPLA and the…
The Deadliest Catch: Migrant Trafficking Through Libya
The number of migrants attempting to migrate to Europe via the Mediterranean reached epic proportions after the…
America’s Retreat: Russian and Chinese Leadership in the…
Editor's Note: This article is the second of a two-part series on the Middle East and North Africa's (MENA)…
America’s Retreat: Russian and Chinese Leadership in the…
Editor's Note: This article is the first of a two-part series on the Middle East and North Africa's (MENA) shifting…
How the West Adamantly Condemns Libya’s Slave Trade —Yet…
On November 13, CNN released a video of slave auctions in Libya. The video showed an off-screen auctioneer offering…
The Fall of an Empire: President Mugabe’s…
President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe and his party the Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF)…
The Price of a Man: Libya’s Migrant Slavery Crisis
Shortly after dictator Muammar Gaddafi’s death in 2011, experts forecasted difficult years of state reconstruction…
South Africa’s #BlackMonday Protests Suggest that…
On October 30th, a procession of trucks, tractors, and farmers dressed in black lined South Africa’s roadways. The…
The Purge: Oil and the Angolan Economy
Lourenco has begun puring is cabinet of Dos Santos loyalists. Will this help end the corruption plaguing the…
Conditional Empowerment: Shifting Community Land Rights…
Pastoralism has been a key feature of East African savannas for millennia. Herders in Kenya practice mobile…