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Tim Marshall considers the new role the Japanese will be taking in regional geopolitics

Amidst most of the gloom shrouding the prospects of the country’s economic landscape , perhaps the only sanguine news of late came regarding the broader ‘conceptual agreements’...

Weak twisters in the Houston metro area are not unusual. Strong tornadoes, such as the one that devastated southeastern suburbs Tuesday, happen much less often.

  In over two decades since Nigeria’s return to constitutional democracy, this is the longest politicians have had to campaign before a general election. And that is a good and bad thing.   It’s good because it is giving politicians a longer runway to meet more citizens and also for citizens to have more time to engage them on what they plan to do if elected. But as a number of politicians – especially those of the Nigerian variety will tell you – it’s also a bad thing because it will make them spend more and leave them near exhaustion at the finish line.

But if politicians are ever going to take their promises seriously, then voters will have to do better on the demand side.