http://webfeeds.brookings.edu/-/638656852/0/brookingsrss/topics/subsaharanafrica.jpgBetween 2015 and 2018, the European Union, Japan, and the United States exported 14 million used vehicles worldwide—40 percent of which went to African countries. The low prices of these vehicles create high demand for them in Africa and other
https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/5fad4c1f2900002e30c6bd43.jpeg?cache=h1ncaa9kah&ops=224_126 JERUSALEM (AP) — A helicopter belonging to an international peacekeeping force crashed in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula on Thursday, killing at least seven people including several Americans, an Israeli and an Egyptian official said. Both sides said the crash appeared
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November 12, 2020 Facebook extends political ad ban for another month This story, plus The Philadelphia Inquirer names new top editor, the BBC is cleared of pay discrimination but must rebuild trust with female employees, and more, all
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Cornelius AdebahrNonresident Fellow at Carnegie Europe Hardly. That’s because too many among Europe’s leaders—at EU or national level—appear to think that U.S. President-elect Joe Biden means a return to some good ol’ days. Yet, the world has changed since whenever
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In “Support Any Friend: Kennedy’s Middle East and the Making of the U.S.-Israel Alliance,” Warren Bass recounts a meeting between Israeli Prime Minister David Ben Gurion and President John F. Kennedy in which Kennedy reportedly said: “I was elected by
Joe Biden was proclaimed the winner of the 2020 American presidential race on Saturday, Nov. 7. Biden crossed the 270 Electoral College votes threshold needed to secure the presidency. The rest of the votes are still being counted. They are yet to be certified by each of America’s 50 states. In electoral parlance, Biden is now…
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https://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/11/11/arts/11davido1/11davido1-moth.jpgDavido — the American-born Nigerian Afrobeats artist David Adedeji Adeleke — has built an international career on songs about love and lust that have collectively amassed more than a billion streams. The album he is releasing on Friday, “A Better
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/11/12/world/10toure/10toure-moth.jpgAmadou Toumani Touré, a former president of Mali who helped shape the country’s political landscape over two decades before being toppled in a military coup in 2012, died on Monday in Istanbul. He was 72. Mr. Touré’s chief of staff, Seydou
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https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/5fac29cf240000bb26b0417e.jpeg?ops=224_126 GENEVA (AP) — As the coronavirus explodes again, the World Health Organization finds itself both under intense pressure to reform and holding out hope that U.S. President-elect Joe Biden will reverse a decision by Washington to leave the health
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https://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/11/11/us/politics/11dc-miller1/11dc-miller1-moth.jpgWASHINGTON — A little-known counterterrorism official named Christopher C. Miller flew to the Middle East last month to pursue a diplomatic idea: asking Qatar to help devise plans to buy off or otherwise marginalize some senior leaders of the Shabab,