Joshua Meservey is a senior policy analyst for Africa and the Middle East within the Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign and National Security Policy at The Heritage Foundation.
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“I wouldn’t call this an election … this is a selection.” So said Halima Ibrahim, head of Somalia’s National Independent Elections Commission, about the electoral process in… Read More
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Morocco agreed on Dec. 10 to resume formal diplomatic relations with Israel, joining the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Sudan as the fourth Arab country… Read More
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The Trump administration on Friday announced a pair of historic events in U.S.-Sudan relations: the official notification to Congress that, after 27 years, the president… Read More
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American leadership is clear as COVID-19 continues to wreak damage around the globe, including over a million deaths worldwide and trillions of dollars in lost… Read More
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What would have been the world’s most extensive free trade zone since the formation of the World Trade Organization was supposed to go into effect… Read More
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At the behest of all 54 African countries, the U.N. Human Rights Council held an “urgent debate” June 16 to discuss racism and police brutality,… Read More
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We know too little about the new coronavirus to say how it will progress in Africa, but we know enough to realize it is likely… Read More
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There are no exact corollaries in history to the coronavirus pandemic gripping the world now. But the response to the disease known as COVID-19 does… Read More
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Borscht, or beet soup, is a staple of Eastern European cuisine. Its dense, complex flavor derives in part from the sour cream that is often… Read More
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In the early hours of Jan. 5, the al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorist group al-Shabaab attacked a joint Kenyan-American military base in Manda Bay, Kenya, where several hundred… Read More
