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The Mingling of the Oceans

By Akbar Ahmed; With Frankie Martin and Amineh Ahmed Hoti

2023

An oil slick is seen on Santa Barbara creek, following an oil spill in Nembe, Bayelsa, Nigeria, November 25, 2021. Picture taken November 25, 2021. REUTERS/Temilade Adelaja

Africa in Focus

Africa in the news: Vaccine, politics, and natural resources updates

Saturday, December 18, 2021

A map of Yemen overlayed on a portrait of President John F. Kennedy.

Essay

John F. Kennedy’s Yemen crisis

Monday, December 13, 2021

Desalination plant in Israel

Order from Chaos

Israel, Jordan, and the UAE’s energy deal is good news

Bruce Riedel and Natan Sachs

Tuesday, November 23, 2021

Sam Darwish, Chairman & CEO of IHS Holding Ltd, rings the opening bell to celebrate his company’s IPO at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., October 14, 2021. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid

Africa in Focus

Africa in the news: Vaccine updates, Kenya-Somalia’s sea boundary dispute, and investment in Africa

Saturday, October 16, 2021

A lab technician arranges the vials of Chinese Sinovac's CoronaVac vaccine against coronavirus disease (COVID-19) during the inauguration of a production lab designated to manufacture the vaccine, in Constantine, Algeria September 29, 2021. REUTERS/Ramzi Boudina

Africa in Focus

Africa in the news: Morocco-EU trade, politics, and vaccine updates

Saturday, October 2, 2021

FILE PHOTO: A woman carries an infant as she queues in line for food, at the Tsehaye primary school, which was turned into a temporary shelter for people displaced by conflict, in the town of Shire, Tigray region, Ethiopia, March 15, 2021. Picture taken March 15, 2021. REUTERS/Baz Ratner/File Photo

Order from Chaos

The exemplary U.S. sanctions regime for Ethiopia’s Tigray conflict and its limitations

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Friday, October 1, 2021

EDITORIAL USE ONLY - Two taliban fighters in charge of the security in Darullaman Palace in Kabul. Kabul, Afghanistan, September 15, 2021. Photo by Oriane Zerah/ABACAPRESS.COM

Drug Trafficking & Counter-Narcotics Policy

Pipe dreams: The Taliban and drugs from the 1990s into its new regime

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Small Wars Journal Wednesday, September 15, 2021

--FILE--Customers shop for dairy products due to discounts at a supermarket in Nanjing city, east China's Jiangsu province, 16 October 2017.Consumers who are anticipating cheaper prices for products during the upcoming Nov 11 shopping festival may not necessarily find them online, a new study said. According to the 2017 China shopping report jointly released by market consultancies Bain & Co and Kantar Worldpanel, the online prices of many product categories are higher than those offered in physical stores, with the biggest price differences seen for toothbrushes, hair conditioners and kitchen cleansing supplies. Jason Yu, general manager of Kantar Worldpanel for Greater China, said the price differences can be largely attributed to the fact that relatively more high-end products are purchased online. "While Chinese consumers used to shop online for low prices in the past, it has been increasingly noticeable in the recent five years that people prefer products that indicate a better lifestyle or entail more added value," he said. As a result, the sales of imported goods, especially food products and personal care products, have risen significantly, he said. "To cater to this trend, leading e-commerce players such as Alibaba and JD.com have upgraded their offerings on their platforms to meet the demand of the rising middle class and younger consumers," he said.No Use China. No Use France.

China

Focusing on the middle class

Tuesday, September 14, 2021

A photo shows the Great Hall of the People, the venue of The National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China (National People's Congress or NPC), in Beijing, China on May 28, 2020. At the final plenary session will be held on the afternoon on May 28th, a policy "national security legislation" will be plan to adopt to crack down on anti-governmental movements in Hong Kong, but among the Hong Kong citizens, there is growing concern that it will lead to the collapse of the "one country, two systems". The congress was supposed to start on March 5th, however it was postponed due to the new coronavirus COVID-19 spread in the country. ( The Yomiuri Shimbun )

China

Seven major changes in China’s finalized Personal Information Protection Law

Alexa Lee, Mingli Shi, Qiheng Chen, Graham Webster, Jamie P. Horsley, and Kendra Schaefer

DigiChina Monday, August 23, 2021

U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney (R) speaks to President George W. Bushby phone inside the operations center at the White House with staff,September 11, 2001, the day of the terror attacks in New York andWashington. Bush on September 16, 2001 asked "horrified" Americans togo back to work this week, cautioning them to be alert for more attacksand to brace for a long crusade to "rid the world of evildoers".Picture released by the White House on September 16. REUTERS/WHITEHOUSE photo by David BohrerME

Order from Chaos

September 11 in the White House

Monday, August 23, 2021

joie de Peruth Chemutai (uga) - Women s 3000m steeple a l arrivee

Africa in Focus

Africa in the news: Ethiopia updates, Zambia elections, and Africa’s many Olympic achievements

Tamara White and Mary Blankenship

Saturday, August 14, 2021

Villagers return from a market to Yechila town in south central Tigray walking past scores of burned vehicles, in Tigray, Ethiopia, July 10, 2021. REUTERS/Giulia Paravicini

Order from Chaos

Dangerous trends in Ethiopia: Time for Washington’s tough love

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Monday, August 9, 2021

This camp is managed by both the state and humanitarian organizations, and the displaced people have found a more normal life here than elsewhere / The UNHCR official makes the children repeat certain phrases.The region of Cabo Delgado, in the northeast of Mozambique, has been experiencing an unprecedented humanitarian drama for the past 4 years. Al-Shabab jihadists affiliated with the Islamic State since 2019 are wreaking havoc there. This armed group terrorizes the different ethnic groups while carrying out coordinated and simultaneous attacks against public institutions. To date, more than 2,800 people have been killed.In Pemba, the capital of the region and a former tourist town, the humanitarian situation has continued to deteriorate. The town's population has doubled. The displaced are piling up on the beaches or waiting in buildings requisitioned by the state before being rehoused.Camps are multiplying throughout the region. The inhabitants are totally dependent on humanitarian aid. The conditions are precarious, between insecurity, extreme poverty and the beginning of famine.Where: Montepuez, Cabo Delgado, MozambiqueWhen: 28 Apr 2021Credit: Chris Huby/Le Pictorium/Cover Images

Order from Chaos

Events of last six months show fragile countries must remain priority for the US and its allies

Alexandre Marc and Bruce Jones

Tuesday, July 20, 2021

President John F. Kennedy greets Prime Minister of Algeria, Ahmed Ben Bella, upon the Prime Minister's arrival at the White House for a ceremony in his honor. Source: John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum

Order from Chaos

Kennedy, Cuba, and the “War of the Sands”

Monday, July 19, 2021