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Democracy Teetering in African Countries Once Ruled by France
New York Times· 7 days agoA wave of military coups and presidents clinging to power are two sides of the same anti-democratic...
Congo: A Realistically Rigged Election
Strategy Page· 3 days agoFebruary 5, 2019: In Congo supporters of political opposition presidential candidate Martin Fayulu continue to bitterly contest CENI’s (Independent National Electoral Commission) decision to ...
After pushing its economy to the brink, Egypt gets a bail-out
The Economist· 1 day agoIN ANCIENT times, the pharaohs knew their survival might depend on the annual flooding of the Nile....
Senegal country profile
BBC via AOL· 6 days ago...becomes part of the French Union. 1958 - Becomes an autonomous republic, as part of the French Community. 1960 - Senegal becomes independent,...
War Is Hell. Everywhere
Baltimore Jewish Times· 20 hours ago“War,” the Union Army Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman is famously said to have told a group of army cadets some years after the American Civil War, “is...
StreetInsider.com - Reuters
StreetInsider· 3 days agoGaza's hungry eat wild plant with no aid relief in sight Mar 25, 2024 01:10PM By Mahmoud Issa GAZA (Reuters) - As the U.N. Security Council demands an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and concerns grow that famine may take hold, the territory's hungry
How Russia’s grab of Crimea 10 years ago led to war with Ukraine and rising tensions with the West |...
Texarkana Gazette· 5 days agoA decade ago, President Vladimir Putin seized Crimea from Ukraine, a bold land grab that set the...