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West African Winter: Why Sanctions Won’t Work
“Today, apart from vegetables, nothing is affordable in the market. Neither onions nor oil, let alone meat.” – Fane Tenin Berthe, local...
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Apr 15, 20225 min read


ISIL, al-Qaeda, and the Malian Hotel Hostage Crisis: Globalized Rivalry and Localized Terror
On November 21, only a week after terrorist attacks rocked Paris and left 130 dead, heavily armed gunmen streamed into a hotel in Bamako,...
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Dec 8, 20156 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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