Burundi Election Lacks Critical Ingredient: Candidates
Bujumbura, Burundi — Less than a week away from its first presidential vote since the last armed group laid down their guns, Burundi’s election…
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A Comparative Guide to Grenade Attacks in Burundi & Rwanda
It almost seems like you can’t hold elections without a few grenade explosions in this part of the world. Grenade explosions made international news…
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Moving On From Juvie
Washington — In their first job out of law school, Whitney Louchheim and Penelope Spain worked, literally, in a closet. With neither windows nor…
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Defending Due Process for Guantanamo Detainees
Defense attorneys for Guantánamo detainees stand up for due process despite hate mail, threats, and Dick Cheney’s daughter. New York — At first, Joshua…
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The African Divide: Land Disputes
Zuluyee, Liberia; and Kailahun, Sierra Leone — The specialists know the warning signs. Analysts and scientists and field officers and academics spend years writing…
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New Study Argues War Deaths Are Overestimated
A new study, the Human Security Report, argues that politics and fund-raising priorities often lead to overestimates of war deaths, touching off a controversy…
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Confronting Your Own Stereotypes
When we travel to a foreign country, we often bring our assumptions with us. That’s what reporter Jina Moore did during a trip to…
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A Country Called Amreeka
There is a scene in A Country Called Amreeka by Alia Malek that seems to be playing on repeat. We’ve been watching it for…
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Sitting Down With Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
When Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was elected Liberia’s president in 2005, she inherited a country wrecked by civil war and began to transform it. Today,…
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He’s Got the Law (Literally) In His Hands
Six years after a civil war that killed 250,000 and displaced hundreds of thousands more, justice is at the top of Liberia’s list of…
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