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Burkina Faso’s 100,000-Strong Military Reserve: Security Solution or Human Rights Trap?

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Burkina Faso’s Council of Ministers adopted a draft law on April 24 that would create a military reserve force of up to 100,000 reservists by the end of 2026. Defence Minister Célestin Simporé presented the initiative as a landmark expansion of citizen participation in national defence — a way to rapidly mobilize ordinary Burkinabè to […]

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OPEC’s Cracks Widen: What the UAE’s Exit Means for Africa’s Energy Markets

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When the United Arab Emirates formally withdrew from OPEC and OPEC+ on May 1, 2026, it was more than a bureaucratic adjustment to the membership registers of the world’s most consequential oil cartel. It was a declaration — quiet in tone but unmistakable in implication — that the era of collective producer discipline is giving

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Two Decades Later, Children in Darfur Are Again Facing Catastrophe — With Far Less International Attention

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In 2005, the world looked at Darfur. Satellite images of burning villages, reports of mass atrocities, hundreds of thousands of displaced people — the images compelled action, or at least the appearance of it. A UN peacekeeping mission was deployed, albeit slowly and incompletely. Celebrities wore blue wristbands. The word genocide was used, carefully, by

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