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Rwanda: The Quest for Reconciliation and Justice
“You cannot have reconciliation without real, true justice being done,” asserted Rwandan prosecutor Jean Bosco Mutangana. Mutangana is...
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Apr 10, 20145 min read


What Will Red Risk for Black Gold?
In the space of less than a generation, China has transformed itself from a nation almost completely cut off from the international...
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Mar 11, 201412 min read


Exporting Homophobia: Taking A Losing Battle Abroad
In 2009, a bill was introduced in the Ugandan parliament that called for the arrest of LGTBQ Ugandans and specifically targeted...
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Mar 10, 20146 min read


Dangerous Assignments
We live in troubling times. Protests, wars, coups, government corruption, crime and acts of terrorism are just some examples of the...
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Feb 10, 20145 min read


Un-African Homosexuality
“Homosexuality is incompatible with scripture,” asserted Stanley Ntagali, the archbishop of Uganda, in response to accusations by British...
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Feb 6, 20144 min read


Blurred Lines of Terrorism: Is Africa the New Afghanistan or Is America Just Overstepping?
American drones, special operations, and proxy soldiers have quietly but rapidly become commonplace in Africa in the past decade. As...
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Oct 2, 20134 min read


Ebony and Ivory (and Terrorists and Guns)
At the center of the many conflicts in Africa is another war. This battle deals not with state borders, but with the items transported...
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Sep 24, 20136 min read


Money Talks: The New Plan to Catch Kony
A little over a year ago, a viral video took the Internet by storm. In the week following the release of “Kony 2012,” the video had over...
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Jul 22, 20134 min read


The Frenchman’s Burden
Uranium. Campaign checks. Oil. What’s really going on in Mali. France is at war. At the time of writing, 4,000 French soldiers are...
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Mar 12, 201313 min read


Diplomacy on the Rocks
In his recent column on the Senkaku/Diaoyu islands dispute between China and Japan, Carter Johnson raises several interesting points. I...
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Feb 28, 20134 min read
Only Human
As a columnist who writes exclusively on MENA (Middle East/North Africa), I’m just going to state the obvious: I don’t usually end up...
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Jan 24, 20134 min read
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