Editorial: Sudan has now breached a cardinal principle of the AU. No change of government by force of arms. Sudan will now be excluded from the AU until it reverts to democratic rule. President arrested after months of protests that escalated with mass sit-in on Saturday Sudan’s army has removed President Omar al-Bashir from power …
Hanke’s Annual Misery Index 2018: The World’s Saddest (And Happiest) Countries Steve Hanke
Nigeria ranked sixth most miserable country in the world The human condition inhabits a vast continuum between “miserable” and “happy.” In the sphere of economics, misery tends to flow from high inflation, steep borrowing costs and unemployment. The most surefire way to mitigate that misery is economic growth. All else equal, happiness tends to blossom …
Only Growth Can Defuse Nigeria’s Poverty Time Bomb by Bloomberg Opinion’s editorials
In his first term, President Muhammadu Buhari left too much undone. In his second, he needs to be bold. One of humanity’s most hopeful developments in recent decades has been the dramatic drop in extreme poverty. In 2000, some 1.4 billion people lived at or below the global poverty line of $1.90 a day. Today, the …
This Is Very Good.’ How Trump Beat the Mueller Investigation by Alana Abramson, Molly Ball and Tessa Berenson/Washington and Charlotte Alter/New York for Time Magazine
President Donald Trump had finished a round of Sunday golf and repaired to his private quarters at his Palm Beach, Fla., club when the news arrived. After 22 months, the findings of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation were in. Moments before, around 3 p.m. on March 24, Trump’s White House lawyer Emmet Flood received a …
Why Nigeria’s Elections Won’t Change Anything By Elnathan John
There is little difference between the country’s ruling party and the opposition. A campaign poster for President Muhammadu Buhari, who is running for re-election. Nigeria has come a long way from 1999 when the army handed over power to a democratically elected government, but the bar must rise from simply conducting marginally free and fair …
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