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Africa’s growing and neglected cancer problem: We will all suffer

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Miles A. Pomper and Ferenc Dalnoki-Veress | July 22, 2016 | The Conversation Uganda’s only radiation treatment machine broke down in April earlier this year, provoking widespread public criticism and leaving an estimated 30,000 new cancer patients stranded. Yet the lack of adequate cancer care was hardly unique in the region: 80 percent of Africa’s one billion … [Read more...] about Africa’s growing and neglected cancer problem: We will all suffer

Locals without borders: governments are using diasporas to shape the migration crisis

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Domhnall O'Sullivan | 25 July 2016 | New Statesman Governments of countries key to the migration crisis are tapping diaspora influence more than ever before. Last month, on 21 June, thousands of Eritreans descended on Geneva and marched across the city, finally stopping at the Place des Nations in front of the UN. The demonstrators had come from across Europe: … [Read more...] about Locals without borders: governments are using diasporas to shape the migration crisis

Africa’s top 10 tech pioneers: ‘We have become an internet-consuming culture’

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Zoe Flood in Nairobi | Monday 25 July 2016 | The Guardian As part of the Guardian’s series on technology in Africa, we meet 10 leaders of the continent’s digital transformation Africa’s digital transformation would be nothing without the tens of thousands of people who have invested, and continue to invest, energy into propelling it forward. They … [Read more...] about Africa’s top 10 tech pioneers: ‘We have become an internet-consuming culture’

We love to talk of terror – but after the Munich shooting, this hypocritical catch-all term has finally caught us out

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Robert Fisk | 24 July 2016 | The Independent How come a Muslim can be a terrorist in Europe but a mere ‘attacker’ in south-west Asia? The frightful and bloody hours of Friday night and Saturday morning in Munich and Kabul – despite the 3,000 miles which separate the two cities – provided a highly instructive lesson in the semantics of horror and hypocrisy. I despair … [Read more...] about We love to talk of terror – but after the Munich shooting, this hypocritical catch-all term has finally caught us out

Why Coups Fail

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Brian Klaas | July 17, 2016 | Foreign Affairs The Outcome in Turkey Was No Surprise As tanks rolled through Ankara over the weekend, it looked like Turkey was about to become the first and only NATO member since the end of the Cold War to suffer a textbook coup d’état. Then, after merely a few hours, the plot began to falter. Turkish President Recep Tayyip … [Read more...] about Why Coups Fail

Hollande’s promise to respond militarily to the Nice attack just continues the West’s vicious circle of terror and war

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Robert Fisk | Friday 15 July 2016 | The Independent At some point, we in the West are going to have to learn that if we intervene militarily in Mali or Iraq or Libya or Syria or interfere in Turkey, or Egypt, or the Gulf, or the Maghreb – then we will not be safe 'at home' The act was obscene. President Hollande’s description – “monstrous” – was adequate so far as … [Read more...] about Hollande’s promise to respond militarily to the Nice attack just continues the West’s vicious circle of terror and war

‘They Will Find Us and Kill Us’

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Siobhän O'Grady | July 14, 2016 | Foreign Policy From murder to mass rape, a special report from the front lines of South Sudan’s civil war. NYAL, South Sudan — The South Sudanese government soldiers arrived in a village outside rebel leader Riek Machar’s hometown of Leer early on an October morning last year, and they fanned out quickly through the maze of thatch-roofed … [Read more...] about ‘They Will Find Us and Kill Us’

Is America Repeating the Mistakes of 1968?

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Julian E. Zelizer | Jul 8, 2016 | THE ATLANTIC The Kerner Report confronted a tense nation with data about structural racism throughout the country and made recommendations to solve the problem. But America looked away. “All of us, as Americans, should be troubled by these shootings, because these are not isolated incidents,” said President Barack Obama following … [Read more...] about Is America Repeating the Mistakes of 1968?

WHO ARE ALL THESE TRUMP SUPPORTERS?

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George Saunders | JULY 11 & 18, 2016 ISSUE | THE NEW YORKER At the candidate’s rallies, a new understanding of America emerges. HE APPEARS Trump is wearing the red baseball cap, or not. From this distance, he is strangely handsome, well proportioned, puts you in mind of a sea captain: Alan Hale from “Gilligan’s Island,” say, had Hale been slimmer, richer, more … [Read more...] about WHO ARE ALL THESE TRUMP SUPPORTERS?