Nigeria carried out the second round of its electoral process with gubernatorial and state assembly elections on March 18. The United States is deeply troubled by the disturbing acts of violent voter intimidation and suppression that took place during those polls in Lagos, Kano, and other states. Members of the U.S. diplomatic mission observed the …
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Nigeria’s presidential transition offers US and UK policymakers a chance to reset their relations with Abuja. Nigeria’s just concluded presidential elections have been focusing minds in London and Washington. Like tens of millions of Nigerian voters, Anglo-American officials realized what was at stake. Nigeria is Africa’s largest economy and is on track to be the …
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San Benito, Texas CNN — Raul Rodriguez says he’ll never forget the moment he realized his life was built on a lie. He was so shaken that he felt the blood rushing to his feet. In a matter of seconds, a family secret had shattered the way he saw the world and his place in it. “That …
Best of luck.Photographer: Kola Sulaimon/AFP/Getty Images Africa’s largest economy needs urgent reforms to stabilize the country’s fiscal situation and attract investment. Some two weeks after ruling-party candidate Bola Tinubu claimed victory in Nigeria’s presidential elections, controversy is still swirling around the vote, delaying follow-up elections for state governors. But even if President-elect Tinubu takes office …
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In the years I worked for him, Jimmy Carter was always the same: disciplined, funny, enormously intelligent, and deeply spiritual. David Hume Kennerly / Getty Life is unfair, as a Democratic president once put it. That was John F. Kennedy, at a press conferenceearly in his term. Jimmy Carter did not go through as extreme a …
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