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A Case for Susan Rice as US Vice President

As Amer­i­ca crawls toward the Novem­ber 3 Gen­er­al Elec­tion, there is plen­ty of spec­u­la­tion, includ­ing prog­nos­ti­ca­tion, about who for­mer vice-pres­i­­dent and pre­sump­tive Demo­c­ra­t­ic nom­i­nee Joe Biden will pick as his run­ning mate.  First, some con­text. Per­haps you are not a polit­i­cal junkie, you are just a layper­son or an aver­age Joe and may be won­der­ing why…

Advocates in Denver Decry Rights Abuses in South Sudan 

Feb­ru­ary 22 is the lat­est dead­line set by the inter­na­tion­al com­mu­ni­ty, includ­ing the lead­ing spon­sors of peace in South Sudan – the Unit­ed States, Unit­ed King­dom, Nor­way, and Italy –for both the gov­ern­ment and the oppo­si­tion to reach an agree­ment and resolve the con­flict in the war-torn coun­try. This dead­line to form a uni­ty government…

Immigrant Communities Look for Answers after Aurora Shooting

These are sor­row­ful times in Amer­i­ca. Once again, tragedy hit the Unit­ed States the week­end of August 4, when shoot­ings rocked El Paso in Texas, and hours lat­er in Day­ton, Ohio. Sad­ly, these shoot­ings in the U.S. are orches­trat­ed with the use of high-pow­ered guns, some con­sid­ered weapons of war in the hands of civilians…

President Donald Trump Described as a Racist by the Media

The recent deroga­to­ry tweets direct­ed towards four Amer­i­can demo­c­ra­t­ic con­gress­women by the Pres­i­dent of the Unit­ed States, Don­ald Trump, read more like a sto­ry­book villain’s tirade than of the com­­man­der-in-chief of the world’s most pow­er­ful nation. The tweets from Trump, stat­ing that the con­gress­women “who orig­i­nal­ly came from coun­tries whose gov­ern­ments are a com­plete and…

Following Paul Biya Stay in Switzerland, Reporter Gets into Trouble

The Anglo­phone cri­sis in Cameroon which picked up steam in late 2016 and con­tin­ues to this moment has degen­er­at­ed from what was described then as a near-civ­il war into what is now seen as a full-blown civ­il war between sep­a­ratists and the Cameroon­ian mil­i­tary. The casu­al­ties on both sides con­tin­ue to mount.  The Inter­na­tion­al Cri­sis Group…

Post-Election Affairs in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Edi­tor’s Note: A lot has hap­pened in the Demo­c­ra­t­ic Repub­lic of Con­go (DRC) since the Decem­ber 30, 2018 elec­tions. In this analy­sis, our own Uni­qua Smith scout­ed the web and oth­er sources for news and infor­ma­tion fol­low­ing the his­toric trans­fer of pow­er in the nation.  In the process of find­ing out what is tak­ing place Smith…