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Once Silent About Their Suffering, Making Baskets Helped Them Open Up

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Sara Toth Stub | March 9, 2016 | NPR Serekalem Alemu is crocheting a basket. Wearing a gray fleece jacket and a long gray skirt speckled with blue flowers, Alemu sits on a sofa on the second floor of a former warehouse in the industrial section of Tel Aviv. A damp Mediterranean winter breeze blows in through the open window. Traffic whizzes by on the boulevard below. … [Read more...] about Once Silent About Their Suffering, Making Baskets Helped Them Open Up

Helping Hurts: Why Supporting Dictators Can Doom Them

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Sean Yom | March 7, 2016 | FOREIGN AFFAIRS Great powers have long supported unsavory dictatorships in pursuit of strategic interests, such as natural resources, military security, and financial gain. The relationship usually involves an impressive array of incentives, including diplomatic carrots such as treaty agreements and bilateral accords; economic aid in the … [Read more...] about Helping Hurts: Why Supporting Dictators Can Doom Them

Djibouti opposition leader vindicated

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04 Mar 2016 | MAIL & GUARDIAN Weeks before President Ismaïl Guelleh stands for an unconstitutional fourth term, he has lost a “politically motivated” case against his former ally. The London high court this week ruled against the government of Djibouti in what Justice Julian Flaux said was a “political” case against the country’s exiled opposition leader Abdourahman … [Read more...] about Djibouti opposition leader vindicated

Little time left to protect Africa’s food supply from climate change

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Megan Rowling |March 08 2016 | BUSINESS DAY BARCELONA — Without action to help farmers adjust to changing climate conditions, it will become impossible to grow some staple food crops in parts of sub-Saharan Africa, with maize, beans and bananas most at risk, researchers said on Monday. In a study of how global warming will affect nine crops that make up half the … [Read more...] about Little time left to protect Africa’s food supply from climate change

We mustn’t forget the revolutionary roots of International Women’s Day

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Rebecca Winson | 8 March 2014 | NEW STATESMAN Now marked with Google doodles and special shopping displays, in the early 20th century, International Women's Day was a fierce, worldwide campaign for worker's rights. International Women’s Day: a day, according to the UN, to “reflect on progress made”, to “celebrate acts by ordinary women”. Few would say that it … [Read more...] about We mustn’t forget the revolutionary roots of International Women’s Day

Ethiopian students demand end to police crackdowns in rare protest

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ADDIS ABABA | Aaron Maasho | Tue Mar 8, 2016 | REUTERS Dozens of university students protested in Ethiopia's capital on Tuesday, demanding an end to police crackdowns that followed months of demonstrations over plans to requisition farmland in the country's Oromiya region late last year. The government wanted to develop farmland around the capital, Addis Ababa, and its … [Read more...] about Ethiopian students demand end to police crackdowns in rare protest

The World According to Men

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 Chrisitna Asquith | Mar 7, 2016 | THE ATLANTIC  Many media organizations still portray international affairs through a predominantly male lens—and there are real consequences. ISTANBUL—For most of the 19th and 20th centuries, women war correspondents were rare creatures—considered intellectual oddities, more likely to be fetishized than taken seriously as news … [Read more...] about The World According to Men

EU welcomes bold Turkey plan to stop migrants, defers decision

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BRUSSELS | Humeyra Pamuk and Gabriela Baczynska | Mon Mar 7, 2016 | REUTERS European Union leaders welcomed Turkey's offer on Monday to take back all migrants who cross into Europe from its soil and agreed in principle to Ankara's demands for more money, faster EU membership talks and quicker visa-free travel in return. However, key details remained to be worked out and … [Read more...] about EU welcomes bold Turkey plan to stop migrants, defers decision