The woman bringing hope through education in rural Nigeria — BBC Africa

Nige­ria has one of the world’s low­est school atten­dance rates, accord­ing to Unicef – one out of every five chil­dren out of school around the world is here. One woman is on a mis­sion to reverse that trend by start­ing a free edu­ca­tion ini­tia­tive. Noro and Edward, who both dropped out of school after losing…

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How Sudanese Christians celebrate Christmas in exile — Focus On Africa Podcast

Thou­sands of Sudanese Chris­tians face Christ­mas away from home as the Sudan war con­tin­ues. We hear from one woman who was born into a Mus­lim fam­i­ly but con­vert­ed to Chris­tian­i­ty, on how her com­mu­ni­ty tries to help those flee­ing the war, and how she main­tains Christ­mas tra­di­tions despite liv­ing in exile in Egypt. We meet one…

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Major international crisis ‘much more likely’ in Trump’s second term, says his ex-national security adviser

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/8c9c22b613e3c442f28dcecfcd4bcf373f93dc81/0_212_3337_2002/master/3337.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=79e08901c693cd89a0c1df62c7a27797John Bolton deliv­ers scathing cri­tique of Trump’s lack of knowl­edge or coher­ent strat­e­gy: ‘I’m very wor­ried’ A major inter­na­tion­al cri­sis is “much more like­ly” in Don­ald Trump’s sec­ond term giv­en the president-elect’s “inabil­i­ty to focus” on for­eign pol­i­cy, a for­mer US ambas­sador to the Unit­ed Nations (UN) has warned. John Bolton, who at 17 months…

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YouthRoots

Kenyans Abroad: Sheila Van de Graaph and YouthRoots

  Youth­Roots is a non-prof­it orga­ni­za­tion you prob­a­bly have nev­er heard of. Head­quar­tered in Den­ver, Col­orado, it taps into the pow­er of young peo­ple to make deci­sions that affect their lives. We dis­cov­ered Youth­Roots and their work on Novem­ber 13th when we attend­ed a gath­er­ing at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Den­ver’s Kor­bel School of Inter­na­tion­al Stud­ies titled “Con­nect­ed­ness in a Dis­con­nect­ed World.”…

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Lyombe Eko

Spears Books Presents Cameroon Anglophone Literature

The Cameroon Anglo­phone cri­sis remains a dai­ly news top­ic. Although it might appear neglect­ed, numer­ous con­cerned cit­i­zens are eager to high­light it to the glob­al com­mu­ni­ty. Cameroon­ian Anglo­phones, includ­ing Lyombe Eko, seek to edu­cate oth­ers on Cameroon’s his­to­ry and rel­e­vant issues and advo­cate for a res­o­lu­tion. The Anglo­phone Dilem­ma and the Unfor­get­table Past Through its myriad…

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NATO chief aims to put Ukraine in position of strength for peace talks with Russia

https://gdb.voanews.com/804a6f58-69e3-462e-934a-1b7d8e0b0e97_w800_h450.jpgBRUSSELS — NATO’s sec­re­­tary-gen­er­al said he wants to dis­cuss ways to put Ukraine in a posi­tion of strength for any future peace talks with Rus­sia dur­ing a meet­ing Wednes­day with Ukraine’s pres­i­dent and a small num­ber of Euro­pean lead­ers. But Mark Rutte appeared frus­trat­ed at grow­ing spec­u­la­tion in NATO cap­i­tals about when those peace talks might…

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Students for Africa

DU’s Students for Africa Host Community Dinner After Elections

The recent com­mu­ni­ty din­ner orga­nized by the Stu­dents for Africa group at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Den­ver’s Kor­bel School of Inter­na­tion­al Stud­ies was spe­cial. It was spe­cial because the con­cept of unit­ing the com­mu­ni­ty for dia­logue occurs only occa­sion­al­ly in this town. As a par­tic­i­pant, I had not seen any­thing like this for quite some time,…

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Mitch McConnell warns Trump to avoid ‘isolationist’ foreign policy in second term

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/f05afafec16c1cf3ff17af9cc31f7c3af6d97c15/409_179_4354_2612/master/4354.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=fd9352d1c2e811b8ecfad0a6442e9031Repub­li­cans’ out­go­ing US Sen­ate leader takes issue with for­eign pol­i­cy think­ing in party’s Maga move­ment Mitch McConnell, the Repub­li­cans’ out­go­ing leader in the US Sen­ate, has called on Don­ald Trump to avoid an “iso­la­tion­ist” for­eign pol­i­cy dur­ing his loom­ing sec­ond pres­i­den­cy – and urged him to back up a surge in Amer­i­can “hard pow­er” by…

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