Rwanda is best known in the West for 100 days in 1994. The Rwandan Genocide saw the deaths of as many as 1,000,000 Rwandans and the migration of as many as three time more. From the ashes of this great disaster, Paul Kagame (a Tutsi) rose up to restore order…
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A Look Back at Clinton-Trump
The 58th presidential election of the United States was held on Tuesday, November 8, 2016. A few weeks before the election, candidate Donald Trump was behind in the polls. On October 17, 2016, Trump tweeted: "Of course there is large scale voter fraud happening on and before election day." This…
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Turkish Delight
Once again, Erdoğan seeks to alter the political structure of the Republic of Turkey. When he became the Prime Minister in 2003, the Turkish state reflected the long Turkish history of seeking Europe. Atatürk created a Western state out of the remains of the Ottoman Empire. The new Republic of…
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Burundi's Presidential Election
The Republic of Burundi is a landlocked country in eastern Africa surrounded by Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Rwanda. It suffered its own genocide in 1972, where 100,000 Hutu and 10,000 Tutsi were killed. Current president, Pierre Nkurunziza, is the son of a Tutsi mother and Hutu…
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Bashir Wins
Omar al-Bashir became president of Sudan in 1989 through a coup d'état. Since then, he won the elections of 1996, 2000, and 2010. As discussed in Bashir and Sudan, the 2015 elections were held between April 13 and 16. Did Bashir win these elections?
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