Located in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, ‘La Maison du Peuples’ (the House of the People) stands as an amalgamation of brutalist formidability and soft ornamentation. Its warm concrete facade blends into the surrounding rich-toned earth, while skyli...
French President Emmanuel Macron touched down in Rabat, Morocco, on October 28, stepping into a city decked out in French and Moroccan flags. He arrived accompanied by a delegation of 130 people, including ministers, business leaders, and French-Moro...
On February 4, 2021, the International Criminal Court (ICC) convicted former Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) commander Dominic Ongwen on 61 charges committed during the Ugandan civil war, including “murder, rape, sexual slavery, abduction, and tortu...
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 a hundred million views, had reached more than half of all eighteen to twenty-nine year olds, and wa...
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 a hundred million views, had reached more than half of all eighteen to twenty-nine year olds, and wa...
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 deployed in Azawad, the northern half of Mali, fighting a combination of Islamist and separatist insurgents who t...
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 deployed in Azawad, the northern half of Mali, fighting a combination of Islamist and separatist insurgents who t...
In his recent column on the Senkaku/Diaoyu islands dispute between China and Japan, Carter Johnson raises several interesting points. I agree with most of them, and after reading the article I found myself thinking on a historical analogy of the conf...
In his recent column on the Senkaku/Diaoyu islands dispute between China and Japan, Carter Johnson raises several interesting points. I agree with most of them, and after reading the article I found myself thinking on a historical analogy of the conf...
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 analyzing sunshine and rainbows. At the end of the day, much of what desperately deserves the attention ...
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 analyzing sunshine and rainbows. At the end of the day, much of what desperately deserves the attention ...