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By Femi Akinrebiyo Africa sits atop an enviable wealth of minerals crucial for the world’s clean energy transition. Copper, lithium, cobalt, manganese, rare earth metals and graphite – essential ingredients for electric vehicle (EV) batteries, renewable technologies and decarbonisation of industrial processes – are plentiful across the continent. Meanwhile, Africa’s demographics offer an unmatched asset: a booming, …

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faces a formidable set of detractors with a seeminglyforbidding set of questions.Is personal freedom not suitable to the challenges of our time? Is economic liberty nolonger resonant to a broad range of citizens, including policy makers? Is the United Statesunwilling, unable, or unworthy to champion sound principles of economics to othernations? Is the ascendant intellectual …

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The Trump administration is undermining publicly produced data, slashing public investments in research, and intimidating civil society institutions that produce fact-based analyses. Enervating organizations that inform the public about vital issues like public health, economic growth, and—most of all—the actions of policymakers leaves the citizenry less able to hold officials to account. Attacks on the …

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The March 25 executive order (EO) on American elections, which purports to protect election integrity, instead represents considerable legal overreach—and could disenfranchise many voters across the country. The power to regulate the large majority of elections lies with the states and U.S. Congress—as set out by the Elections Clause of the U.S. Constitution. If followed, this EO would consolidate a great deal of power …

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Republicans are set to make the audacious play of bypassing the Senate parliamentarian and moving forward with a budget resolution based on a scoring baseline set by Budget Committee Chair Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) that would allow them to argue extending President Trump’s 2017 tax cuts won’t add to the deficit. Audien HearingSpecial Sale: Get $25 …

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Rep. Andy Biggs, a Republican from Arizona, submitted a resolution on Monday to remove Judge James Boasberg from office after he blocked President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement efforts. The chief judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia issued an order last month trying to block Trump from sending five illegal …

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The depth of the U.S. involvement, as reported, is likely to both infuriate and vindicate Moscow, which often in the course of the war said it was a collective Western struggle against Russia. Tehran, IRNA – From early into the Ukraine war, the United States was enmeshed in the conflict far more deeply than previously …

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Since the spring of 2022, the United States has been much more closely involved in a military conflict on Ukraine, than previously thought. It is reported by The New York Times. “In the first days after the Russian troops invaded the Ukraine, two Ukrainian generals went from Kiev is under diplomatic cover with a secret mission. In the …

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The vast mistreatment of the Tigray people by the TPLF as told by Ato Teame Aradom. Watch the video here.

The German Research Foundation (DFG) funds the democracy matrix and has been operating since 2016. It is being conducted by the Chair of Comparative Politics and the German Government at the University of Würzburg. Researchers established it as an alternative to the Democracy Indices of Freedom House and Polity. The Matrix groups countries based on their rankings into …

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