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December 15, 2020

Nigeria
CFR Fellows' Book Launch Series Guest Event With John Campbell

John Campbell discusses his new book, Nigeria and the Nation-State. Nigeria is Africa's largest economy and is projected to be the third most populous country in the world by 2050, yet its democratic…

Play People crowd on a road near Balogun market to shop, a day before Christmas in Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos
Virtual Event by John Campbell and Richard Haass CFR Fellows' Book Launch

June 25, 2012

Sub-Saharan Africa
Guest Post: Rural Futures

This is a guest post by Owen Cylke. Mr. Cylke is a development professional and a retired senior foreign service officer with USAID. In his post, he discusses the CAADP meeting in Nairobi in early Ma…

A worker picks tea at a plantation in Githunguri, 30 km (18 miles) from Kenya's capital Nairobi, January 6, 2012.
Blog Post by Guest Blogger for John Campbell Africa in Transition

April 11, 2024

Climate Change
Screening and Discussion of PBS Series "Changing Planet: Coral Special"

The PBS series Changing Planet embarks on its third year of this seven-year project examining the issues facing the planet’s most threatened ecosystems. The “Coral Special” episode takes us to the Ma…

Play An aerial view of Male island, Maldives
Event by Gillian Caldwell, Monica P. Medina, M. Sanjayan, Jennifer Koss, Paula A. Kerger, and Abdul Ghafoor Mohamed

November 13, 2012

Americas
Guest Post: Latin America’s Working Women

This is a guest post by Stephanie Leutert, a research associate here at the Council on Foreign Relations who works with me in the Latin America program. Over the last decade, poverty, and inequali…

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Blog Post by Guest Blogger for Shannon K. O'Neil Latin America’s Moment

April 10, 2024

Genocide and Mass Atrocities
Remembering the Rwandan Genocide

Thirty years ago, Rwanda’s government began a campaign to eradicate the country’s largest minority group. This Why It Matters episode discusses how in just one hundred days, 800,000 people in Rwanda were killed, while the rest of the world sat on the sidelines.

Podcast Woman carrying her child reads the names of Rwandan genocide victims.
Podcast by Gabrielle Sierra, David J. Scheffer, and Claude Gatebuke Why It Matters

July 23, 2012

Sub-Saharan Africa
Guest Post: South Sudan’s Poisonous Corruption

Andrew C. Miller is a research associate at the Council on Foreign Relation’s Center for Preventive Action. He can be found on Twitter @andrewmiller802. South Sudan just celebrated its first birthd…

A woman holds her child in a cave in Bram village in the Nuba Mountains, South Kordofan, April 28, 2012.
Blog Post by Guest Blogger for John Campbell Africa in Transition