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China’s Belt and Road Initiative invests in African infrastructure — and African military and police forces Natalie Herbert © Max Bearak/The Washington Post The port of Djibouti hosts a Chinese military base. China’s military base in Djibouti isn’t the only sign of increasing Chinese security engagement in Africa. Although analysts typically see China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) as a global investment and economic growth program, these projects also may facilitate increased Chinese security cooperation with participating nations. By early 2021, 140 countrie...

Anti-voter ID editorial defies common sense | Letters Updated Mar 08, 2021; Facebook Share The editorial stated, that according to the ACLU, 34 other states with GOP-majority legislatures enforce voter ID laws, and the reason is that they are “inherently discriminatory.” Does this mean that these states are also discriminating when they require people to produce an ID to get a driver’s license, or to show proof of age when buying alcohol or cigarettes? You must show ID to get on an airplane and even for some doctor’s visits. Does that mean that the government, airlines and doctors ar...

Fighting the war on COVID-19 spread in Africa Continued from Tuesday At this slow pace of one per cent delivery, when will Ghana reach the herd immunity threshold of vaccinating 70% of the country’s total population of 31 million people? In contrast, in the United States, about 1.5 million COVID-19 vaccine shots are administered per day, while more than 1.5 million people have already taken the AstraZeneca vaccines in Britain (Alex Tabarrok, “We could reach herd immunity so much faster, “ The Washington Post, February 14, 2021, P. B1 & P. B4.). However, to compound the COVID-19 problem ...

In recent months, Kenya's esteemed Directorate of Criminal Investigations’ Twitter account has become some of the most titillating reading in the country. The director, George Kinoti, was blunt about why.