With Burkina Faso’s increasing problems with attacks by jihadist groups, a weak government and underfunded security forces, Andrew Mueller of Monocle Radio asks whether France’s military should be involved.
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Tagging along with three migrant workers from Yunnan province , newly returned ICWA fellow Matthew Chitwood (China, 2017-2019) joins chunyun, or the spring migration of the country’s workforce. […]
The mountains surrounding Baños de Agua Santa test the nerves of adventure tourists. […]
Center-right politicians join the AfD to oust a state premier, a first in postwar politics. […]
After a year caught in a downward spiral, the disgraced lawyer Michael Avenatti—who achieved fame representing the porn star Stormy Daniels—spent the past two weeks in solitary confinement, in a cell once occupied by the Mexican drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzman. […]
With the demise of firsthand witnesses, history is increasingly a pawn in an era of rising intolerance and revisionism. […]
Despite the approval voiced in Washington, the US administration’s Israeli-Palestinian peace deal will most likely only raise tensions. […]
The AfD is working to co-opt patriotism and alter the way Germans view their past. But most find the issue far more complicated. […]
The social entrepreneur Anushka Ratnayake has managed to lower prices for servicing smallholder farmers in remote areas through the innovative use of SMS and mobile phone technology. […]
How the kingdom’s schools and universities shape its youth. […]