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International efforts, such as the Paris Agreement, aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But experts say countries aren’t doing enough to limit dangerous global warming.
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October 10, 2014
China
Pathetic International Response to Ebola Thus Far
Ebola is not showing the international community at its best. Even as Ebola panic seems to be spreading internationally, with possible new cases in Macedonia and the Czech Republic and Ebola deaths i…
August 9, 2011
Wars and Conflict
Guest Post: Reflections on West Africa
Supporters attend the launch of Senegal's controversial African Renaissance statue, April 3, 2010. (Eve Coulon/Courtesy Reuters) This is a guest post by Mohamed Jallow. He is an interdepartmental…
April 27, 2021
Defense and Security
Lessons From History Series: Screening and Discussion of "Revealed: The Hunt for Bin Laden"
Ten years after the Abbottabad raid that found Osama bin Laden, speakers discuss the decade-long search to find the man responsible for the 9/11 attacks. The Lessons From History Series uses histo…
March 12, 2015
Sub-Saharan Africa
Mercenaries in Nigeria
Reuters reported early Thursday that the Abuja government is using foreign mercenaries in the struggle against Boko Haram. They cite a security source as saying that each mercenary is paid $400 per d…
May 31, 2012
Sub-Saharan Africa
Charles Taylor Sentenced - a Step Forward?
In April, the Special Court for Sierra Leone in The Hague found Charles Taylor guilty of many crimes against humanity related to his involvement with the civil war in Sierra Leone. (Taylor was not tr…
