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The Domino Effect: How Niger’s Coup Echoes Regional Instability
Kamal Tasiu Abdullahi 27 November 2023

The recent coup in Niger, which took place on July 26, 2023, is just the latest episode in a series of events that have sent shockwaves through the region and left governments and international actors scrambling to respond. Niger, a country that experienced a relatively fair democratic transition in 2021 with the election of Mohamed Bazoum as president, has once again descended into chaos.
Human Rights, International Affairs
Identity and Violence: Abiy Ahmed’s Amhara genocide denial
Aster Carpanelli , Nicoletta Fagiolo 3 May 2023

Ethiopia under the Prosperity Party is a de facto one-party dictatorship and its regime seems to be reinforcing the ethnicity-based apartheid federalism
Arts
Africa’s Cultural Dilemma: Will Restitution Heal Old Wounds?
Matteo Fraschini Koffi 23 September 2020

“Ethnography has had its day: it is high time Europeans hand over looted objects”, says the director of the Dakar Museum of Black Civilizations. But other African artists and cultural players have more than a doubt.
Philosophy
Human Rights and the Critique of “Humanitarian Reason”
Seyla Benhabib, Yale University 10 July 2014

On February 16, 2014 The New York Times Magazine ran an article called “Container City.” “Container City” refers to the Kilis camp in southern Turkey housing 14, 000 refugees from Syria. Protected by high gates and surrounded by barbed wire, Kilis from the outside shares features with many refugee camps all over the world that make them indistinguishable from prisons or criminal detention centers. Kilis houses its population in 2,053 identical containers, spread in neat rows. The pictures that accompany the article remind one of shipping containers at a harbor. Each container is a 23 by 10 foot trailer with 3 rooms; and a color TV with close to 1000 channels, probably picking up programs from all the surrounding countries of the Mediterranean.