America’s Next Soldiers Will Be Machines
https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/us-military-robot-training-war-machine-california-8295793.jpgIn future wars, U.S. generals want to send robots to face the enemy’s first bullets.
https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/us-military-robot-training-war-machine-california-8295793.jpgIn future wars, U.S. generals want to send robots to face the enemy’s first bullets.
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/04/06/multimedia/06rwanda-kagame-2-zflk/06rwanda-kagame-2-zflk-mediumSquareAt3X.jpgThirty years after a devastating genocide, Rwanda has made impressive gains. But ethnic divisions persist under an iron-fisted president who has ruled for just as long.
https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/taiwan-navy-ship-tsai-GettyImages-2105340826.jpgIn their 100th column, Matt and Emma revisit clashes over Taiwan, Ukraine, Iran—and how to deter an alien invasion.
https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/8b95ad310629a54ebee28d0c2a65dfd4caaaff59/1_0_2998_1800/master/2998.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=89ad15768ed224dd410b042a8702c762Richard Grenell’s shadow foreign policy campaign is unsettling diplomats and threatens to collapse US interests For Donald Trump, he is “my envoy”, the man apparently anointed as the former US president’s roving ambassador while he plots a return to the White House. To critics, he is seen as “an online pest” and “a national disgrace” –…
Detailshttps://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/04/02/multimedia/02senegal-1-qgfz/02senegal-1-qgfz-mediumSquareAt3X.jpgSenegal’s new president, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, took the oath of office in Tuesday’s ceremony. Close behind him sat the popular opposition leader who had clinched the win.
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/03/26/world/00Canada-Africa-promo/00Canada-Africa-mediumSquareAt3X.jpgHundreds of newcomers from Africa have filled a shortage of workers in Rouyn-Noranda, creating a new community in a remote mining town.
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/03/27/multimedia/27senegal-add4-tgkp/27senegal-add4-tgkp-mediumSquareAt3X-v2.jpgHow did Bassirou Diomaye Faye, age 44, go from obscurity to a resounding win in Senegal’s presidential election? At the family homestead, one relative explained, “This family is not new to ruling.”
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/03/24/multimedia/24senegal-election-bcwh/24senegal-election-bcwh-mediumSquareAt3X.jpgThe top opposition politician, Ousmane Sonko, is barred from running. So Sunday’s vote is widely seen as a choice between his handpicked candidate and the departing president’s designated successor.
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/03/22/multimedia/22uganda-1-mthw/22uganda-1-mthw-mediumSquareAt3X.jpgGen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba, who has a reputation for provocative late-night tweets, has been working to position himself as heir apparent to his father, President Yoweri Museveni.
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/03/18/multimedia/00africa-democracy-1-gqbz/00africa-democracy-1-gqbz-mediumSquareAt3X.jpgA wave of military coups and presidents clinging to power are two sides of the same anti-democratic coin plaguing Francophone Africa, experts say.