Somali Region of Ethiopia: PM Abiy Must Address the Culture of Impunity
Ethiopia is slowly moving in the right direction after the reformist PM Abiy Ahmed took power over 100 days ago.
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Opinion
I’m travelling home to Zimbabwe to vote even though it may be a farce
I am a 42-year-old Zimbabwean citizen resident in South Africa. Today, I will be travelling to Harare largely to cast
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Corruption, the law and Nigeria’s leaders
One of the unfortunate impressions, even attributes, of the Nigerian justice system has been an appearance of lack of capacity
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Opinion: A Decision That Will Live in Infamy
It will take generations for the Supreme Court to live down its approval of Trump’s travel ban. By Noah Feldman
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Some of the pictures of border kids that haunt me most are from 2014. Here’s why | Will Bunch
Opinion— Will Bunch The other day, a veteran immigration lawyer named R. Andrew Free shared an anecdote that sheds some really critical light
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Opinion: We should be careful to celebrate SA’s election to UN Security Council
The relationship between Africa and the United Nations (UN) has always been one that is laden with complexities. Africa, throughout
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Opinion: Too much, too soon — Ethiopia’s reformer has to slow down
Just a few days ago, people polled at the spot of Saturday morning’s attack warned that Ethiopia’s new prime minister, Abiy Ahmed, could
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OPINION: Victory for Mnangagwa ‘would suit most African states, including SA’
On November 6, 2017, Emmerson Mnangagwa was fired from the position of Vice-President of Zimbabwe by then president Robert Mugabe.
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Let’s cry for Palestine
Writing in The Guardian newspaper this week, Arab-American author Moustafa Bayoumi decried the language used in his country’s press to
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Somaliland Must Be Free
The U.S. wastes blood and treasure propping up Somalia while denying its neighbor’s sovereign aspirations. Why? In 1991, following the
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