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How Mass Kidnappings of Students Hinder Nigeria’s Future

Boko Haram and now banditry force children out of schools, risking a ‘lost generation.’ This week’s latest mass kidnapping of Nigerian schoolchildren underscores that the crumbling of human security in Africa’s most populous nation is worsening a deeper impairment, hollowing out Nigeria’s education system to create a “lost generation” of …

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With Syria’s Last Aid Crossing on the Line, Can U.S., Russia Make a Deal?

The upcoming U.N. border crossing vote comes at a time of significant humanitarian suffering across Syria. A crucial deadline that will determine the future of humanitarian aid to Syria looms this week, as the authorization for the Bab al-Hawa crossing on the Turkey-Syria border expires on July 10. The crossing …

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Scars from NATO

After Yugoslavia’s (Serbia) President Slobodan Milosevic refused to accept the so-called Rambouillet Agreement in 1999, which in reality was NATO ultimatum that demanded from Serbia and Montenegro to allow NATO troops to occupy the province of Kosovo as well as that NATO can build bases in Serbia, and that all …

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