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The Wilson Center's Africa Program is looking for fall interns to start at the end of August! If you have a passion for African development, politics, and U.S./Africa relations, we encourage you to...
View ArticleOpportunities at the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit
In August 2014, President Obama will welcome leaders from across the African continent to Washington D.C. for a three-day U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit.
View ArticleWhy Do Women Turn into Suicide Bombers?
Recently, a young Nigerian girl—just 15 years old—approached a group of police officers and blew herself up. The attack failed; she claimed no lives but her own.
View ArticleWhat Next for US-Africa Engagement?
From August 4-6, 2014, the Obama Administration hosted the first ever US-Africa Leaders Summit that took place in Washington, DC. Over 50 African Heads of State attended with a goal of strengthening...
View ArticleU.N. Report: Child Abuse Is Rampant Globally
Pity the children. In numbers sure to shock and numb, UNICEF Thursday issued the largest collection of data detailing violence against children globally.World-wide, just over one-third of all students...
View ArticleNuclear Free South Africa
A new short film“Nuke Free South Africa: 20 Years On” by the British group WMD Awareness features NPIHP principal researcher Anna-Mart van Wyk and commemorates the voluntary denuclearization of South...
View ArticleMugabe is Bailed out by Beijing. But too Little too Late for Zimbabwe?
China has agreed to help Zimbabwe avoid a total economic meltdown.Without the promise of assistance from Beijing that came last month, Zimbabwe could not even begin to pay its civil servants, police,...
View ArticleCentral African Republic: Should the World Pay Attention?
As the world focuses on the atrocities of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), a far more brutal scenario has been unfolding some 2,500 miles directly south of Damascus. Situated in the...
View ArticleThere Before Ebola Had a Name
Dr. Peter Piot was just 27, a budding virologist with a thirst for adventure, when he was dispatched to the heart of Africa to track down a terrifying virus that he had helped discover.It was 1976, and...
View ArticleDaily News on Issues Affecting Africa for November 5, 2014
Nigeria: Boko Haram seizes major town, eyes secession Nigerian terrorist group, Boko Haram has seized, and renamed the second largest town in the northern state of Adamawa.The Islamist sect displaced...
View ArticleMedia, M.D.
After almost two months of screaming newspaper headlines and wall-to-wall cable television coverage about the Ebola outbreak, a calm descended over the media in late October. On Oct. 30, the Washington...
View ArticleUnderplayed Conflicts of 2014
I have spent my life covering wars, revolutions, and uprisings—more than forty years’ worth of them now. As I looked through annual rundowns of the Big Stories of 2014, I found three types of conflicts...
View Article2015 Summer Institute on Conducting Archival Research
Applications are now being accepted for the 2015 Summer Institute on Conducting Archival Research.The Summer Institute on Conducting Archival Research (SICAR) is a four-day seminar in which Ph.D....
View ArticleSouthern Voices African Research Scholarship Program
Background and Purpose of the Scholarship ProgramThe overall objective of the Southern Voices Network is to increase the visibility of African perspectives into US policymaking towards Africa. As a...
View ArticleAn African Misstep in Looking to Mugabe?
On the eve of his 91st birthday, Robert Mugabe has been selected to head the African Union, the 54-nation organization designed to promote unity, economic cooperation, and social development across the...
View ArticleFood Security & Population Dynamics in the Sahel
Africa’s Sahel region is one of the most harsh environments on the planet with one of the highest birth rates as well. Food security, particularly when combined with population dynamics and the impact...
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Plunder and The Perils of Mugabe’s Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe is expiring, again. More banks are failing, beer sales – a key indicator – have slumped dramatically since 2013, tourist arrivals are down, and the business confidence index is at lowest ebb...
View ArticleInternational Women's Day: Empowering Women in Uganda
International Women’s Day is a time to celebrate the achievements of women and to reflect on the barriers that women have overcome economically, politically, and socially. It is a time when women...
View ArticleAn Unsung Leader Rewarded
Responsible, committed, honest leadership is rare in sub-Saharan Africa. Yet, good leadership establishes good governance in the many parts of the developing world (like most of Africa) that do not yet...
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