A dangerous backtrack on the US-Mexico security relationship

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https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/mexico_amlo_002.jpg?w=270 On Tues­day, the Mex­i­can Con­gress passed a new law severe­ly restrict­ing the oper­a­tions of for­eign law enforce­ment agents in Mex­i­co. It is clear­ly direct­ed at the Unit­ed States in retal­i­a­tion for the U.S. arrest of Mexico’s for­mer Sec­re­tary of Defense Sal­vador Cien­fue­gos on drug traf­fick­ing and cor­rup­tion charges at the Los Ange­les air­port in…

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Uganda election: False claims about Joe Biden and others

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share­Sharen­o­close­Share pagelinkCopy link­About shar­ing image copy­right­Get­ty Images With Ugan­da’s elec­tions due in Jan­u­ary, there’s plen­ty of mis­in­for­ma­tion being shared in a heat­ed cam­paign which has seen seri­ous vio­lence. Pres­i­dent Yow­eri Musev­eni, in pow­er since

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Review: Kempinski Hotel Gold Coast City, Accra

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https://liveandletsfly.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Kempinski-Gold-Coast-Accra-Pool-738x355.jpeg If you look­ing for the best hotel in Accra, this is the place. I enjoyed a tremen­dous stay at the Kempin­s­ki Hotel Gold Coast City and would not hes­i­tate to return. Kempin­s­ki Hotel Gold Coast City Accra Review

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Africa in the news: Kenya and Nigeria updates

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https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/shutterstock_1068814604_small.jpg?w=240Kenya and Unit­ed King­dom sign trade deal  Ear­li­er this month, Kenya signed a trade deal with the Unit­ed King­dom, an agree­ment that will help Kenya avoid dis­rup­tions once the U.K. begins to tran­si­tion out of the Euro­pean Union on December

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WHO: Equitable, Global Distribution of 2 Billion COVID-19 Vaccine Doses to Begin in 2021

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https://im-media.voltron.voanews.com/Drupal/01live-166/2020–12/2020–12–18T133114Z_598285588_RC2PPK9P5Z94_RTRMADP_3_HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS-COVAX.JPG?imwidth=800Near­ly two bil­lion dos­es of COVID-19 vac­cines have been secured for equi­table dis­tri­b­u­tion in 2021 to the 190 coun­tries that have signed on to a World Health Orga­ni­za­­­tion-led part­ner­ship, accord­ing to a Fri­day announce­ment from the group.  Offi­cials from the

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Conflict, floods and COVID-19 push South Sudanese into extreme hunger 

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Dri­ven by inse­cu­ri­ty, the effects of COVID-19, an on-going eco­nom­ic cri­sis, and the impact of flood­ing on liveli­hoods, three UN agen­cies called on Fri­day for imme­di­ate human­i­tar­i­an access to east­ern South Sudan’s Pibor coun­ty, where peo­ple are fac­ing cat­a­stroph­ic lev­els of hunger.