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This past summer, Howard University’s Center for African Studies hosted its first online course, Advanced Seminar in African Policy. The course was led by Ambassador Kamissa Camara, director for external affairs and Africa policy at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change and senior visiting expert for the Sahel at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C..
Outrage among European Union officials who say Belarus is deliberately trying to flood Middle Eastern migrants into Poland and Lithuania reached new heights Monday, with the EU announcing it will sanction airlines that arranged special deals to fly the migrants into Belarus in recent months. The announcement comes after European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen accused Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko of engineering the migrant surge as part of a “hybrid attack” against the EU...
In September, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) invited a representative from Myanmar’s National League for Democracy (NLD), the party of detained former leader Aung San Suu Kyi, to its virtual summit for political parties in South and Southeast Asia. The overture came shortly after Beijing’s special envoy for Asian affairs, Sun Guoxiang, paid a low-key visit to Myanmar, where he asked to meet Aung San Suu Kyi and was denied access by the authorities. Sun made another unannounced visit this month...
Blinken arrived at the presidential complex in a motorcade on Thursday and is expected to have a meeting with Buhari in his office. The Nigerian leader and US top diplomat are also expected to discuss security issues facing Nigeria especially terrorism in the northern region...
A three member delegation of the United States Institute of Peace (USIP), one of the premier US think tanks, visited Islamabad Policy Research Institute (IPRI) on November 18, Wednesday, for a roundtable session on Afghanistan situation and Pak-US relations. The US delegation was headed by Vice-President Asia Programs Dr Andrew Wilder, Director South Asia Program Tamanna Salikuddin, and Country Representative USIP Pakistan Dr Adnan Rafiq...
Chinese leaders are meeting this week with Africa’s political, military, and civil elites in Dakar, Senegal, for the eighth gathering of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC). More African leaders have chosen to attend FOCAC than did the United Nations General Assembly, drawn to the former’s emphasis on cultivating partnerships based on national agendas...