Absent some unforeseen new initiative, or the fulfillment of those initiatives currently underway, any prospect of improving the lives of the South Sudanese in the foreseeable future unfortunately seems remote.
Author: John L. Hirsch
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Michael Keating, the United Nations’ special representative for Somalia, discusses the political and security situation in the country.
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Barrow’s victory now adds him to the list of freely elected rulers in West Africa, alongside President Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia, President Akufo-Addo of Ghana, and President Sall of Senegal.
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Whatever the national or regional achievements of these leaders, their determination to stay in office indefinitely reflects on the inability of the African Union and the continent’s regional economic communities to facilitate peaceful transfers of power.
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The Trump election campaign’s strong opposition to immigration of all stripes—but particularly from Mexico and Muslim countries—appears to have been endorsed by his surprise win and could inspire other governments to continue building walls and enacting strong protections at a time of record human displacement.
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Allister Sparks wrote in his 2016 memoir that, “South Africa is still a much better place than it was under apartheid.” Sparks, one of South Africa’s most distinguished journalists, died on September 19 at the age of 83 after a 66-year career covering the difficult and violent nearly half century of dejure apartheid under Afrikaner […]
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The main drivers of change are members of the new generation of Africans, who are in touch with the world through the communications revolution and attending public and private universities in greater numbers than ever before.
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Post-Cold War criticism of the Council seems to ignore the fact that the pre-1990s power struggles between the US and Soviet Union, and those countries in their respective spheres of influence, had a similarly, if not more pronounced, paralyzing effect on decision-making.
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Boutros-Ghali’s downfall led to the appointment of Kofi Annan as the seventh secretary-general. Annan served two terms and took on a major leadership role, denouncing the international failure to prevent genocide in Rwanda and also the UN’s role in Srebrenica during the Bosnian war.
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IPI Policy Analyst Jimena Leiva Roesch discusses the recent climate change agreement reached in Paris.
