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Africa Horn Now

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The Secret Life of Time

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Alan Burdick | December 19 & 26, 2016 Issue | The New Yorker It may seem slippery and maddeningly abstract, but it’s also deeply intimate, infusing our every word and gesture. Some nights—more than I like, lately—I wake to the sound of the bedside clock. The room is dark, without detail, and it expands in such a way that it seems as if I’m outdoors, under an … [Read more...] about The Secret Life of Time

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”

Mugabe: Liberation hero turned despot

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18 December 2016 | Business Day On Saturday, his ruling Zanu-PF party endorsed the 92-year-old leader as its candidate for the 2018 presidential election, bringing him closer to achieving his wish. From crushing political dissent to ushering in disastrous land reforms that saw the economy crumble, many accuse Mugabe of turning the regional breadbasket into a food … [Read more...] about Mugabe: Liberation hero turned despot

Mother and Daughter. They escaped Islamic State. But their horror hasn’t ended.

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Selam Gebrekidan | Dec. 14, 2016 | Reuters Islamic State in Libya kidnapped dozens of African migrants and turned them into sex slaves. But when the group lost ground, the women became a burden rather than a prize. SIRTE, Libya – One mild morning in October, when the roar of fighter jets over Sirte had died down and the crackle of gunfire had paused, Minya Mesmer … [Read more...] about Mother and Daughter. They escaped Islamic State. But their horror hasn’t ended.

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

Has Africa had its fill of ‘strongmen’?

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Jason Burke | Sunday 11 December 2016 | The Guardian After 38 years during which his family has hoarded wealth and power, Angola’s leader José Eduardo dos Santos is quitting. Is this more evidence of a continent in the process of transition? Under the blistering heat of the southern African sun, the dignitaries did not linger. The ceremony was short. The … [Read more...] about Has Africa had its fill of ‘strongmen’?

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?