US Envoy Heads to Africa to Advance Joint Priorities

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https://gdb.voanews.com/00020000–0aff-0242-cb99-08dabd1e6359_w800_h450.jpgU.S. Ambas­sador to the Unit­ed Nations Lin­da Thomas-Green­­field will trav­el to Ghana, Mozam­bique and Kenya this week to advance joint pri­or­i­ties fol­low­ing December’s U.S.-Africa Lead­ers Sum­mit.  Her tour, from Jan­u­ary 25 to 29, will focus on region­al secu­ri­ty issues, food inse­cu­ri­ty, human­i­tar­i­an issues, and sup­port­ing African efforts to mit­i­gate cli­mate change, a senior admin­is­tra­tion official…

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France’s Baguette Becomes Another Ukraine War Casualty

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https://gdb.voanews.com/09320000–0a00-0242–73b6-08dafd6d12f8_w800_h450.jpgThe fall­out of the war in Ukraine is hit­ting even France’s icon­ic baguette, which was recent­ly added to UNESCO’s World Her­itage list. On Mon­day, French bak­ers took to the streets of Paris to protest soar­ing ener­gy and oth­er prices they say are imper­il­ing their trade. Denis Durand begins his work­days at 3:30 a.m. to bake the…

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‘Joe Biden has been constantly underestimated’: Chris Whipple on his White House book

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https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/2e5196e21f179d990f2f1aad32e68e93def34d31/0_148_6024_3616/master/6024.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=880554c07feb8d22ce76c66476c113ffFight of His Life author on Kamala Harris’s strug­gles and growth, Afghanistan, a strong sec­ond year … and if Biden will run again There are those who believe that at 80, Joe Biden is too old to serve a sec­ond term as pres­i­dent. Yet few clam­our for him to hand over to the per­son who would…

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Germany’s strategic timidity

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BERLIN — News this month that the num­ber of Ger­man sol­diers declar­ing them­selves con­sci­en­tious objec­tors rose five­fold in the wake of Russia’s full-scale inva­sion of Ukraine cre­at­ed lit­tle more than a rip­ple in Ger­many. For many Ger­mans it’s per­fect­ly nat­ur­al for mem­bers of the Bun­deswehr, the army, to renege on the pledge they made to…

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The Nigerian influencers paid to manipulate your vote — BBC Africa

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A BBC inves­ti­ga­tion has dis­cov­ered that polit­i­cal par­ties in Nige­ria are secret­ly pay­ing social media influ­encers to spread dis­in­for­ma­tion about their oppo­nents ahead of gen­er­al elec­tions in Feb­ru­ary. The BBC’s Glob­al Dis­in­for­ma­tion Team has spo­ken to whis­­tle-blow­ers work­ing for two of Nige­ri­a’s polit­i­cal par­ties, and promi­nent influ­encers who have described it as “an indus­try”. The…

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On King Holiday, Biden Declares, ‘In America, Hate Will Not Prevail’

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https://gdb.voanews.com/09320000–0a00-0242-e332-08daf8077b66_cx0_cy5_cw0_w800_h450.jpgPres­i­dent Joe Biden declared Mon­day that “in Amer­i­ca, hate will not pre­vail,” as he recalled the life of the Rev. Mar­tin Luther King Jr. on the nation­al hol­i­day com­mem­o­rat­ing the slain civ­il rights leader and his quest for jus­tice and equal rights for Blacks in the Unit­ed States. Biden, speak­ing in Wash­ing­ton to lead­ers of…

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