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Ethiopia Needs A Peace Coalition To Underpin Its New Accord – Analysis

After a devastating two-year civil war, the Ethiopian government and Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) signed a cessation of hostilities agreement on 2 November. The war killed over 500 000 people and displaced millions. But the agreement still hasn’t received universal support across the Ethiopian political elite and their constituencies. A commitment to peace among …

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Is Russia Really The Reason Why Mali Continues To Push France Away? – OpEd

On November 21, 2022, Mali’s interim Prime Minister Colonel Abdoulaye Maïga posted a statement on social media to say that Mali has decided “to ban, with immediate effect, all activities carried out by NGOs operating in Mali with funding or material or technical support from France.” A few days before …

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Getting to the Bottom of Hungary’s Russian Spying Problem

A flash drive containing classified data, reportedly discovered hidden in the anus of an agent trying to cross the Ukrainian-Hungarian border, illustrates how Hungary has become a hub for Russian spying. In late November, at a Ukrainian-Hungarian border crossing checkpoint, Ukrainian special forces armed with machine guns and rifles arrested …

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