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Current political and economic issues succinctly explained. Voters across some eighty countries, home to an estimated four billion people—roughly half of the world’s population—headed to the ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. No one expects a great deal of focus on Africa policy from the incoming Trump ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions.

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