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Nigeria’s Unlikely Election: The Road Ahead

The 2015 presidential elections were a truly historic moment for Nigeria. Here are some of the challenges that lie ahead for president-elect Buhari.

Happy April Fool’s Day

We were only joking about that one, but the rest of our books are real.

Forget Assad

If you cannot overthrow the tyrant, co-operate with him. After four disastrous years in Syria this seems to be the conclusion the international community has arrived at.

Karachi: Operation MQM?

On 11 March 2015, hooded paramilitaries raided ‘Nine Zero’, the headquarters of Karachi’s largest political party, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM).

The Global Village Myth: Does Technology Kill Distance?

Does technology kill distance? So often we hear it. The cumulative message of our news cycle, of debate about foreign and defence policy, is the fear that the global spread of ideas, capital, weapons and people makes our world ever more dangerous.

Dhaka – A Temporary Settlement

The death of more than 1,100 people in the building collapse on the edge of Dhaka in April 2013 was a story of such appalling contempt for human life that it must rank among the most callous in the brutal history of industrialism.