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The United States Must Not Pick Sides in the Nile River Dispute

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Ethiopia and Egypt are at odds over a Nile dam. Washington should be helping them compromise, rather than doing Cairo’s bidding. By Addisu Lashitew | March 14, 2020 | Foreign Policy Egypt and Ethiopia have once again locked horns over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on the Blue Nile. On Feb. 26, Ethiopia temporarily suspended its participation in the … [Read more...] about The United States Must Not Pick Sides in the Nile River Dispute

The Digital Dictators: How Technology Strengthens Autocracy

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By Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Erica Frantz, and Joseph Wright, Foreign Affairs, March/April 2020 I’ll be watching you: outside a mosque in Xinjiang, China, June 2008 Kadir Van Lohuizen / Noor / Redux The Stasi, East Germany’s state security service, may have been one of the most pervasive secret police agencies that ever existed. It was infamous for its capacity to … [Read more...] about The Digital Dictators: How Technology Strengthens Autocracy