Joseph Sany, vice president of the Africa Center at the US Institute of Peace (USIP) and David Shinn, former US Ambassador to Ethiopia and Burkina Faso preview the US-Africa Leaders Summit with host Carol Castiel. Hosted by US President Joe Biden, the confab aims to bring together high-level officials and business leaders from both continents to strengthen US – Africa trade and investment ties and foster cooperation on shared global priorities such as climate change, food security, pandemic prevention and democracy...

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Conflict Analysis & Prevention

Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor joins Meet the Press NOW to discuss Russia's prisoner swap, Putin's new warning on the risk of nuclear war and the state of the warfare in Ukraine...

Conflict Analysis & Prevention

In 2017, in order to liberate the Iraqi city of Mosul from ISIS, Iraqi, U.S. and coalition forces bombed, shelled and razed the city to the ground. Approximately 10,000 civilians died. Their families have spent the past five years trying to bring their city back. "You will see rebuilding, you will see reconstruction. You will see decent streets, decent parks," Ali Baroodi, a photojournalist, says. "But still, war scars are not easy to erase overnight, or even in...

Reconciliation

Over the past two years, the steady expansion of terrorist and fundamentalist threats in the Sahel has not gotten the attention it deserves given the region’s repeated military coups and political turmoil. Due to the apparent contagion effect of military coups, the political instability in the Sahel has resulted in a regional and international focus on electoral timetables and constitutional rule while overlooking the rise of terrorist groups, which continue...

Violent Extremism

The Russian military is losing on the battlefields of Ukraine, so Moscow is trying to freeze Ukrainians into submission. We cannot let them. Over the past nine months the Ukrainian military has defeated the Russian army in the battles of Kyiv, Kharkiv, and Kherson. Ukrainian forces continue to drive the Russians back toward their own borders. Russian morale is dropping as soldiers — including many of the several hundreds of thousands recently...

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Iranian women have taken to the streets to protest the country’s repressive laws against women, and women in neighboring Afghanistan are taking notice. Widespread protests erupted across cities in Iran after the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini on Sept. 16 while she was detained by the morality police for violating Iran’s strict laws requiring women to cover their hair in public. What began as initial outrage over Amini’s tragic death...

Gender

The Biden administration is continuing to push Cambodia for more transparency about China’s access to a naval base on the Gulf of Thailand after U.S. officials warned this year that both nations were taking extraordinary measures to conceal their involvement in the project. For months, Cambodian officials have insisted to their U.S. counterparts that Ream Naval Base will be accessible for multiple nations, not just the Chinese, even while...

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