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Land rights key to fixing Africa’s crowded, costly cities — World Bank
Katy Migiro | 10 February 2017 | Business Day Nairobi — Africa needs to reform its systems for buying and selling land and invest aggressively in urban infrastructure to create jobs, end poverty and reduce cities’ high living costs, the World Bank said on Thursday. Africa’s urban population will double over the next 25 years, reaching 1-billion people by 2040, it … [Read more...] about Land rights key to fixing Africa’s crowded, costly cities — World Bank
TRUMP’S INFORMATION WARS
Steve Coll | FEBRUARY 6, 2017 ISSUE | THE NEW YORKER The White House senior counsellor wants the press to shut up. Will the Administration try the same tactic on federal agencies? Last Monday, according to the Times, President Donald Trump, meeting in the White House with congressional leaders, told a story about voting fraud that he had supposedly heard from Bernhard … [Read more...] about TRUMP’S INFORMATION WARS
John Edgar Wideman Against the World
THOMAS CHATTERTON WILLIAMS | JAN. 26, 2017 | The New York Times Late in a career marked by both triumph and tragedy, the fiercely independent author has written a new book exploring the unsettling case of Emmett Till’s father — and the isolation of black men in America. John Edgar Wideman likes to be in places where people don’t know who he is or what he does for a living. … [Read more...] about John Edgar Wideman Against the World
What Did Cedric Robinson Mean by Racial Capitalism?
ROBIN D. G. KELLEY | January 12, 2017 | BOSTON REVIEW This essay is the introduction to Boston Review's new print issue, Forum I, titled Race Capitalism Justice. Inspired by Cedric Robinson's work on racial capitalism, this themed issue is a critical handbook for racial justice in the age of Trump. Order your copy today. Cedric J. Robinson’s passing this summer at the … [Read more...] about What Did Cedric Robinson Mean by Racial Capitalism?
Extremism Under Sisi
Khalil al-Anani | January 8, 2017 | Foreign Affairs His Repressive Policies Have Worsened the Problem Anyone seeking evidence of creeping Islamist radicalization in Egypt under President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi’s repressive regime need look no further than the bombing of the Coptic Orthodox church in Cairo on December 10. The attack, for which the Islamic State (also known … [Read more...] about Extremism Under Sisi
The Broken Throne of Saba: Yemen Divided
Soheil Sadabadi | January 6, 2017 | Harvard International Review The modern state of Yemen was created when the northern and southern parts of the country were forcibly united in 1990. The state brought together two elements with hundreds of years of divergent historical paths into one nation that cannot truly accommodate either. This lack of national identity has caused … [Read more...] about The Broken Throne of Saba: Yemen Divided
10 Conflicts to Watch in 2017
Jean-Marie Guéhenno | January 5, 2017 | Foreign Policy From Turkey to Mexico, the list of the world’s most volatile flashpoints got a lot more unpredictable this year. The world is entering its most dangerous chapter in decades. The sharp uptick in war over recent years is outstripping our ability to cope with the consequences. From the global refugee crisis to the … [Read more...] about 10 Conflicts to Watch in 2017
Cyberwar for Sale
MATTATHIAS SCHWARTZ | JAN. 4, 2017 | The New York Times Magazine After a maker of surveillance software was hacked, its leaked documents shed light on a shadowy global industry that has turned email theft into a terrifying — and lucrative — political weapon. On the morning of May 18, 2014, Violeta Lagunes was perplexed by a series of strange messages that appeared … [Read more...] about Cyberwar for Sale
The last days of Robert Mugabe
Martin Fletcher | 1 January 2017 | New Statesman Zimbabwe is engulfed, and not only by a political crisis. While its leaders fight, its economy is in meltdown. With considerable trepidation, I took the lift to the sixth floor of the ministry of justice in central Harare to interview the minister. It wasn’t just that I lacked the accreditation foreign … [Read more...] about The last days of Robert Mugabe
Trump’s threat on climate change pledges will hit Africa hard
John J Stremlau | December 19, 2016 | The Conversation US President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the US Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt, publicly questions the existence of climate change. He, and presumably Trump himself, opposes President Barack Obama’s environmental initiatives to limit greenhouse gases that cause global warming. US … [Read more...] about Trump’s threat on climate change pledges will hit Africa hard