Kenya’s Supreme Court Rejects President’s Plan to Amend Constitution

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https://static01.nyt.com/images/2022/03/31/world/31kenya-court01/31kenya-court01-moth.jpg Civ­il soci­ety groups had crit­i­cized the pro­pos­al as an attempt to expand pres­i­den­tial pow­er and strength­en the elite’s grip on nation­al pol­i­tics. NAIROBI, Kenya — Kenya’s top court on Thurs­day quashed an ini­tia­tive by the pres­i­dent to amend the Con­sti­tu­tion, deal­ing a major blow to a plan that could have cement­ed his abil­i­ty to shape…

There Is No Liberal World Order

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https://cdn.theatlantic.com/thumbor/MUYveoYo0jhxgqbUw59NJ9oxeRU=/960x540/media/img/2022/03/DIS_Lead_ApplebaumUkraineHP/original.jpg In Feb­ru­ary 1994, in the grand ball­room of the town hall in Ham­burg, Ger­many, the pres­i­dent of Esto­nia gave a remark­able speech. Stand­ing before an audi­ence in evening dress, Lennart Meri praised the val­ues of the demo­c­ra­t­ic world that Esto­nia then aspired to join. “The free­dom of every indi­vid­ual, the free­dom of the economy…

Focus on Namibia Following Discovery of Oil

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Namib­ia Strikes First Oil  Namib­ia, a nation of about 3 mil­lion peo­ple in South­ern Africa, wants to start pro­duc­ing its own oil in four years. This news comes after Shell, a British multi­na­tion­al oil and gas com­pa­ny struck the country’s first off­shore oil dis­cov­ery at the Graff‑1 well. Hailed as the “final fron­tier” of oil exploration…

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After Years of Conflict, Libya Struggles for Unity

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An African Nation Con­tend­ing with Two Gov­ern­ments Ten­sions in Libya have risen again with the appoint­ment of a new Pre­mier, Fathi Bashagha, by the Par­lia­ment in Tobruk. Bashagha is now con­tend­ing for the posi­tion with Abdel Hamid Dbeibah, an UN-rec­og­nized leader. After the announce­ment, Bashagha went to Tripoli air­port to deliv­er his inau­gur­al speech as…

Headlines Tag Late Tanzanian Hero John Magufuli with Covid-19 Stigma

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The news head­lines fol­low­ing the pass­ing of Tan­zan­ian leader John Magu­fuli paint him in a neg­a­tive light. This is not fair.  Magu­fuli became pres­i­dent in 2015 and won reelec­tion to a sec­ond term fol­low­ing the Octo­ber 2020 gen­er­al elec­tions. Tan­za­nia is often hailed as one of the African continent’s most demo­c­ra­t­ic, polit­i­cal­ly sta­ble, and pros­per­ous African nations.…

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Coronavirus live news: former French president dies of Covid complications; global deaths near 1.5m — The Guardian

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