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February 27, 2012

Sub-Saharan Africa
Sudan and South Sudan: Some Hopeful Movement on Border Issues

Delegations from South Sudan (Juba) and Sudan (Khartoum) have announced they will meet immediately to demarcate the border between the two countries. The goal is for the talks to be completed within …

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October 23, 2007

India
America's Strategic Opportunity with India

Watch U.S. undersecretary of state for political affairs R. Nicholas Burns, discuss America's strategic opportunities with India, including the U.S.-India nuclear deal and India's role as a key playe…

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January 10, 2014

Sub-Saharan Africa
The Rising Death Toll of the South Sudan Crisis

Nicholas Kulish, writing in the January 9 New York Times, reported that the International Crisis Group estimates the number of dead from the current round of fighting that started December 15 in Sout…

A displaced man speaks on a cellphone in his makeshift shelter at Tomping camp, where some 15,000 displaced people who fled their homes are sheltered by the United Nations, near South Sudan's capital Juba January 7, 2014.

October 13, 2020

United States
Happy 245th Birthday to the U.S. Navy!

The U.S. Navy turns 245 years-old today. On October 13, 1775, the Continental Congress commissioned two ships, each with eighty sailors, “for intercepting such transports as may be laden with warlike…

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April 22, 2015

Sub-Saharan Africa
Meet Africa’s Hero Rats

Today is Earth Day, an appropriate moment to remember Africa’s HeroRats. On April 19, the New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof called attention to these creatures and their ability to sniff-out …

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