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Quantifying the impact on Nigeria of the African Continental Free Trade Area (Yewande Olapade and Chukwuka Onyekwena, Brookings)

While there is a general optimism around the promise of the newly in-force African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA), like any other free trade...

Is China worried about an Arctic choke point? (Jeremy Greenwood, Brookings)

The recent deployment of four Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) ships to the waters off Alaska’s Aleutian Islands further highlights the growing chessboard of naval...

Four facets of water in MENA’s conflict and forced displacement crisis (Edoardo Borgomeo, Anders Jagerskog, Carmen Nonay, World Bank blogs)

Water splashing hands. (Photo: Shutterstock) When he first arrived in Jordan, Abd was shocked by the lack of water. He fled Syria in 2013 after...

It’s now or never: Let’s act on the climate ‘code red’ (Niels Holm-Nielsen, World Bank blogs)

Families enjoying an afternoon in Simon Bolivar Park in Bogotá, Colombia The “code red” climate crisis is upon us. Evidence of climate extremes—the recent flooding in...

Iranian children are being punished based on their parents’ religion and beliefs (Hamed Farmand, Atlantic Council)

It was the last week of September 2020 when an Iranian-Christian-convert couple lost custody of their two-year-old adopted daughter, Lydia. The court statement mentioned that...

Evergrande’s place in China’s house of cards (Jeremy Mark, Atlantic Council)

A vehicle drives past unfinished residential buildings at Evergrande Oasis, a housing complex developed by Evergrande Group, in Luoyang, China, on September 16, 2021....

The AUKUS deal has shaken the transatlantic alliance. What should the US and its allies do now? (Christopher Skaluba, John R. Deni, Barry Pavel,...

In recent weeks, the transatlantic alliance has endured several serious stress tests. First came the largely unilateral US decision to withdraw its forces from...

Afghanistan’s health care system on brink of collapse: Tedros (UN News)

WHO/Lindsay Mackenzie. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (centre) speaks to hospital staff at the Wazir Mohammad Akbar Khan National Hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan. The development came as the...

Gloomy moonscape for rover test (ESA)

A Sun barely peeking over a cratered horizon, casting long shadows across a rocky moonscape: ESA’s Erasmus Innovation Centre was transformed into an analogue of the...

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