WPR: Robbie Corey-Boulet on Mali’s turbulent presidential election campaign
And other stories making headlines in Africa.
NYT: Shannon Sims on Zanzibar’s revolutionary female soccer team
Told they couldn't play soccer, the women responded by forming a team.
The Daily Beast: Neri Zilber on Iran pushing conflict on the Israeli-Syrian border
Concern growing in Israel as the Syrian civil war reaches its denouement,
World Politics Review: Robbie Corey-Boulet on the controversial US presence in West Africa
Secrecy is affecting the region’s fragile democracies.
World Policy Journal: Amelia Frank-Vitale on Hondurans returning home
Snapshots of life after deportation.
The Daily Beast: Neri Zilber on Israel and Hamas’s calculated attacks
That no deaths have resulted from several weeks' of rocket fire is "nothing short of remarkable."
Joel Millman boxes to support Global Migration Film Festival
Joel (left) takes one for the team From an IOM press release: IOM Boxer Punches Up Interest in 2018 Global Migration Film Festival Geneva — With preparations beginning for the UN Migration Agency’s third annual Global Migration Film Festival (GMFF) to take place in December this year, IOM senior spokesperson Joel Millman decided to take
Jamie Workman launches new venture
I've just launched a business (which grew indirectly out of my fellowship experience in southern Africa more than a decade ago).