https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/03/31/mozambique-palma-attack-insurgency/ An ongoing, week-long assault by Islamist militants on a northern Mozambique town that has left dozens dead and tens of thousands fleeing marks a significant escalation of the conflict that will precipitate a “humanitarian catastrophe,” analysts and aid organizations said. A largely homegrown militancy that borrows iconography from the Islamic State and professes allegiance to the global terrorist network… Read more »
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021 Last week, after the sudden death of Tanzanian president John Magufuli, the nation swore in Samia Suluhu Hassan, its first female president. The moment is significant for Tanzania, and not just because Hassan is a woman. Hassan is from Zanzibar — the semi-autonomous archipelago that united with mainland Tanganyika to form the United Republic of Tanzania, making her only the second Zanzibari… Read more »
Ghana became the first country to receive a shipment of coronavirus vaccine from a global effort to equitably distribute doses after a plane landed Wednesday with 600,000 AstraZeneca shots. The rollout is a first step toward getting doses to low- and middle-income countries cut out of the global vaccine race. But the timing and the relatively modest supply — enough for… Read more »
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/biden-recommits-to-his-refugee-goal-now-he-must-deliver-on-that-promise/2021/05/05/88521878-ad18-11eb-ab4c-986555a1c511_story.html On Monday, Joe Biden announced he would quadruple the historically low ceiling imposed by his predecessor on refugee resettlements for the current fiscal year. But in the same breath, Mr. Biden said he wouldn’t reach his own limit of 62,500 admissions, which, excluding the draconian annual caps of the Trump era, is itself the lowest such number since the modern refugee program’s inception… Read more »
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/02/16/after-violent-election-ugandas-government-faces-three-big-challenges/ President Yoweri Museveni’s recent criticism of ‘Western elements’ could complicate his reliance on foreign donors. Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni won a sixth term with 58.6 percent of the vote last month, in an election marred by unprecedented violence and repression. Measures supposedly aimed at enforcing covid-19 regulations de facto criminalized political competition, preventing or banning the opposition from electoral campaigns. Security forces targeted opposition candidate Robert… Read more »
By night, the boarding school teacher becomes a security guard. He wears a whistle around his neck in case gunmen jump the low-slung fence and break into dormitories where 300 boys sleep. They know to run if they hear the shrill warning — straight to town, toward the police station. Knock on doors until someone hides you. In a normal… Read more »
