Students of St. George’s Girls’ Secondary School in Nairobi.
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Our findings suggest that it is time to take Kenyan youth seriously as politically important actors.
Prime Minister of Ethiopia Abiy Ahmed (centre) pictured outside his office awaiting dignitaries in February 2020.
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The tensions that had been simmering between the Tigray People’s Liberation Front and the Abiy administration eventually boiled over.
Derby County’s Tom Huddlestone and Swansea City’s Yan Dhanda (right) battle for the ball at Pride Park, Derby, in August, 2019.
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British football should utilise 30 years of academic research to focus on what it needs to do to solve the game’s exclusion problem.
General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, left, and Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok at an October 2020 ceremony celebrating the peace deal.
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The transitional government has achieved a monumental milestone, but peace agreements in Sudan have been known to fall apart quickly.
More and more candidate mobilise the support of local ethnic, religious, and community groups to win votes.
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A key electoral reform in 2009 shifted the focus of legislative elections from political parties to individual candidates.
Reliance on public transit and front-line jobs puts low-income Californians at a higher risk of coming in contact with someone infected with the coronavirus.
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California’s COVID-19 disparities are sobering. Everyone is at risk, but low-income, Black and Latino residents are dying at higher rates.
Demonstrators protesting the political situation in Ethiopia in the wake of the death of musician Hachalu Hundessa.
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Ahmed Abiy has his work cut out to unify a nation divided along tribal lines
The date of arrest and a red cross marked on the face of Felicien Kabuga on a wanted poster at the Genocide Fugitive Tracking Unit office in Kigali, Rwanda, on May 19, 2020.
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Given the contested success of transitional justice in Rwanda, the arrest showcases the mixed record of international justice.
Ugandan protesters call for an end to President Yoweri Museveni’s despotic rule.
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Trouble in Africa’s cities is due to the fact that electoral competition drives leaders to be biased towards rural areas.
Supporters of Zambia’s president-elect Edgar Lungu in 2016. The country is known for peaceful polls, but this one was marked by clashes.
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Political legacies generated during authoritarian rule have a tendency to transcend into the multiparty era.
Minority patients often have better rapport with a same-race or same-ethnicity doctor.
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Minority patients do better when treated by doctors who share the same race or ethnicity But there’s a problem. Most doctors are white, and only 6% of doctors are black.
American executives only represent a fraction of the workforce.
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Hispanic Americans make up just 4.3% of executive positions. They are 17% of the labor force, the largest of any racial minority group.
Activists block the street outside the U.S. Supreme Court as it hears arguments in major LGBT rights cases.
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The U.S. Supreme Court will rule on how the Civil Rights Act applies to LGBT people. A business law scholar explains why it could be one of the most consequential discrimination cases in decades.
Nimai Hajong and his wife, August 2018. Hajong was born in Bangladesh and moved to India when he was an infant. The 58-year-old, now considered a “foreigner” in his own state, poses with paperwork supporting his right to citizenship.
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On August 31, the final list of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) for the state of Assam, along the India-Bangladesh border will decide upon the future of millions of people in the state.
Kenyan women hold a vigil for victims of violence.
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Women who survive violence in Kenya are building peace in their communities.
People of color face more obstacles on the path to an organ transplant.
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Although certain racial minorities are more likely to be diagnosed with organ failure, they are less likely to be transplanted. What’s behind the gap?
Chinese-Australians have largely voted in line with the nation as a whole at the 2019 federal election.
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While there has been talk of a “religious vote” or an “ethnic vote” holding sway at this election, particularly in Sydney’s western suburbs, new research does not bear that out.
A United Nations protection camp in Juba, South Sudan.
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The United Nations Mission in South Sudan has had a mixed bag of success and failure.
‘Ha. But how much do you get paid?’
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Mandatory reporting could help highlight the ethnicity pay gap in much the same way that gender pay gap reporting does.
Particularly for young Canadian Jews, a holiday meal achieves conviviality in the family and solidarity with the Jewish community, but its religious significance is less important than in the past.
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A new survey of Canadian Jew suggests young adults are finding ways of remaining Jewish that are not principally religious.