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Israel warned Obama over UN vote, calling on Trump for help

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MICHAEL WILNER  | 12/23/2016  | Jerusalem Post The Obama administration intended to let the resolution, spearheaded by Egypt, survive a vote in the chamber. Egypt pulls anti-settlement resolution at last minute WASHINGTON -- The Israeli government asked President-elect Donald Trump's transition team to intervene before a vote scheduled for Thursday at the UN Security … [Read more...] about Israel warned Obama over UN vote, calling on Trump for help

Mobile phones are transforming Africa, where they can get a signal

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Dec 10th 2016 | ACCRA AND CAPE TOWN | The Economist DRIVE a few miles from the centre of Accra, the capital of Ghana, into the neat rows of houses that surround it and the paved roads disappear almost as quickly as the phone lines. Yet this has not dented the ambitions of Kwami Williams, a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) who is building a business … [Read more...] about Mobile phones are transforming Africa, where they can get a signal

A New Tool to Fight Genocide

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John Prendergast and Brad Brooks-Rubin | December 15, 2016 | Foreign Affairs Why Anti-Money-Laundering Measures Could Be Game Changing It has been 65 years since the Genocide Convention, drafted in reaction to the Holocaust, first came into force, but the international response to mass atrocities remains largely ineffective. The usual actions—the provision of … [Read more...] about A New Tool to Fight Genocide

Is Donald Trump Mentally Ill? 3 Professors of Psychiatry Ask President Obama to conduct “a full medical and neuropsychiatric evaluation”

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Richard Greene | 12/17/2016 | The Huffington Post I received this stunning letter to President Obama from a source, with written permission from Dr. Herman, Dr. Gartrell and Dr. Mosbacher, because the source knew that I had been interviewing Psychiatrists and Psychologists about Donald Trump’s alleged “Narcissistic Personality Disorder”. Virtually every mental … [Read more...] about Is Donald Trump Mentally Ill? 3 Professors of Psychiatry Ask President Obama to conduct “a full medical and neuropsychiatric evaluation”

To lionise dictators like Paul Kagame is to mock those they persecuted

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Anjan Sundaram | Sunday 11 December 2016 | The Guardian Human rights abuses are too often excused by people seeking to venerate postcolonial dictators who stood up to the west Fidel Castro, Vladimir Putin and Paul Kagame are postcolonial dictators. Their grave human rights abuses are often excused or overlooked by supporters who venerate their defiant … [Read more...] about To lionise dictators like Paul Kagame is to mock those they persecuted

The Soccer-Star Refugees of Eritrea

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 Alexis Okeowo | December 12, 2016 Issue | The New Yorker Athletes from the national team plan a mass defection. Around eleven o’clock on the night of October 10, 2015, Samson Arefaine learned that he had been selected to play on the national soccer team of Eritrea, a sliver of a nation in the Horn of Africa. For two months, he had been in a training camp in the … [Read more...] about The Soccer-Star Refugees of Eritrea

Africa is being choked. But corporations leave their grime on us all

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Lola Okolosie | Friday 9 December 2016 | The Guardian Dense, dirty air laced with grease best describes the atmosphere of most Lagos streets. Drive from one corner of this great west African city to another and in no time you will find surfaces lightly dusted, like a soft sprinkling of icing on cakes. Under the half moons of fingernails, thick grime settles. It’s a … [Read more...] about Africa is being choked. But corporations leave their grime on us all

Castro’s troubled legacy in the Horn of Africa: hero or villain?

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Martin Plaut | December 8, 2016 | The conversation In southern Africa, Fidel Castro is almost universally seen as a hero. After all it is the Cuban leader who sent his forces to Angola to halt apartheid South Africa. What southern Africans would easily forget is that Cuban troops were sent to many other African conflicts with mixed results. Professor Piero Gleijeses, … [Read more...] about Castro’s troubled legacy in the Horn of Africa: hero or villain?

The Rise and Fall of the Somali State

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December 8, 2016 | Strafor Forecast Divisions that took root in Somalia after the drastic defeat of its once-strong government will continue to impede efforts to rebuild the country's institutions. Somalia will remain dependent on foreign support, much as it was before the Somali state collapsed. Should a functional, unified Somalia ever emerge, it would spur … [Read more...] about The Rise and Fall of the Somali State