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“Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak is a Professor of Economics at Yale University and Rifaiyat Mahbub is the Program Manager of the Yale Research Initiative on Innovation and Scale. Epidemiologists had expected weak health systems in Africa to crumble under the weight of Covid-19. Eight months into the pandemic, Africa with a population of 1.3 billion, reported …
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A poll conducted by Pew Research Center revealed that Donald Trump is disliked by a majority of people virtually everywhere in the world except in a small number of countries. Among these are: Nigeria and Israel. Even in the United States where Trump is president, 52% of the people not only agreed with his impeachment …
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Adolf Hitler did not have to come to power. Indeed, during his 13-year quest for leadership of Germany, he almost failed many times. In the end, however, his astonishing success showed how demagoguery could overcome potentially career-ending challenges—and profoundly change history. A determined strongman, not taken seriously by the elites but enabled by a core …
REUTERS/ANNE MIMAULT Early checks and precautions were seen in many African countries like here in Burkina Faso As the threat of a Covid-19 pandemic emerged earlier this year, many felt a sense of apprehension about what would happen when it reached Africa. Concerns over the combination of overstretched and underfunded health systems and the existing …
People carry bags of food on their heads during a mass looting of a warehouse that have COVID-19 food palliatives that were not given during lockdown to relieve people of hunger, in Abuja, Nigeria, on October 26, 2020. – Nigeria, with 200 million inhabitants, counts the highest number of extreme poverty in the world, with …
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