Vaccine Distribution Exposes Global Inequalities
As COVID-19 cases continued to climb at the beginning of the year, hope appeared in the form of numerous successful vaccines.
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Angola Officially Decriminalizes Homosexuality
On Jan. 23, 2019, Angola’s parliament already approved a new penal code that allowed the provisions criminalizing homosexuality to be deleted.
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Election Turmoil Hits Uganda
Political violence, an internet blackout and allegations of voter suppression have taken place in Uganda. Marred by pre-election violence, opposition leader Robert Kyagulani’s - known by his stage name as Bobi Wine - campaign was obstructed by teargas, live bullets and arrests.
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Niger: the Crossroads of the Major Migration Routes
The phenomenon of migration from sub-Saharan Africa to territories considered to be safer or economically and politically stable appears to be quite complex to explain. However, to name a few causes, it would seem that poverty, violence, authoritarian regimes, internal conflicts and climate change are the major push factors that bring people to migrate.
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Ethiopia's Tigray Crisis
The Ethiopia-Tigray crisis is an ongoing conflict that started in November 2020 between the Tigray People’s Liberation Front and the Ethiopian National Defense Force. Hundreds of lives have been lost and thousands displaced.
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