A new report calls the Ebola epidemic “a human tragedy that exposed a global community altogether unprepared.”
Author: Michael R. Snyder
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A list of key upcoming meetings and events with implications for global affairs.
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While an enhanced security presence is undoubtedly needed to bolster international forces and keep the militias in check, rearming CAR’s armed forces is laden with risk.
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Professor Ken Menkhaus of Davidson College discusses what is needed to get Somalia’s post-civil war political transition back on track.
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A genocide-in-the making is the worst-case scenario, although this misses the fact that the opposition to the president is multiethnic.
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Unlike in Paris, Beirut, or even Yola and Kano, the majority of acts of mass violence attributed to the group occur in areas of Nigeria where news cameras do not roll and where hospital death records are non-existent.
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Analysis of the rates of attacks throughout the Lake Chad area reveals that the epicenter of fighting has shifted from Nigerian territory to northern Cameroon, with lesser amounts of violent attacks hitting Chad, followed by Niger’s Diffa region.
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Fallout from the Paris attacks is likely to exacerbate concerns around the hundreds of thousands of refugees flowing into Europe from Syria.
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Climate Action Network Director Wael Hmaidan discusses the prospects for a legally binding agreement coming from climate talks in Paris at the end of the month.
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Despite many ethnic groups lacking sizeable representation in parliament, Myanmar’s next government needs their support to continue pursuing a peaceful solution to the ongoing conflicts in many parts of the country.