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March 29, 2016
Sub-Saharan Africa
Fire Destroys Market in Nigeria’s Second Largest City
Over the weekend—near the end of the Christian observance of Holy Week—a fire broke out in Kano’s Sabon Gari market. It eventually destroyed 3,800 shops, according to the Nigeria Emergency Management…
April 11, 2014
Middle East and North Africa
Standing Firm --To Blame Israel
Several well-known members of America’s foreign policy establishment have just published an open letter to Secretary of State Kerry, entitled “Stand Firm, John Kerry.” And firm they are, in blaming I…
June 18, 2012
Sub-Saharan Africa
Violence in Nigeria’s North Taking New Turns?
An apparently new jihadist group announced its establishment by video recently. Calling itself Jama’atu Ansarul Musilimina Fi Biladi Sudan, it states as its goal to protect Muslims in Africa. There …
June 11, 2015
Sub-Saharan Africa
The Mind of the African Strongman
Herman J. Cohen, former assistant secretary of state for Africa, former ambassador, and former special assistant for African affairs to President Reagan, has written a fascinating and clear-eyed book…
April 1, 2013
Sub-Saharan Africa
Bloody Easter in Nigeria’s Middle Belt
Over Easter weekend there were at least fifty deaths attributable to ethnic and religious conflict near Jos in Plateau state in Nigeria’s Middle Belt. This time, based on media reports, most of the v…
