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Old Enemies, New Alliances: Ethiopia's Tigray Region Edges Toward a Second War

Addis Ababa/Mekelle 

Nearly four years after a peace agreement ended Ethiopia's brutal two-year civil war in Tigray, the settlement that halted the fighting is showing signs of coming apart — not through a simple resumption of the old conflict, but through a realignment so unexpected that some of the deal's…
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Congo and Rwanda's Peace Process Faces Its Toughest Test Yet as Fighting Persists in the East

Kinshasa/Kigali 

More than 15 months after the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda first signed a U.S.-brokered peace framework, negotiators from both governments met in Geneva on September 16 and 17 for the seventh round of talks under the deal's Joint Security Coordination Mechanism — and the…
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A President Without a Microphone: America’s Networks Black Out Trump, and Three Newsrooms Go to Court

After CNN, MS NOW and Politico were stripped of their White House passes, the five broadcast networks suspended the television pool. The president’s helipad ceremony went out with no usable audio, and by Monday night the White House had launched a channel of its own.

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The Hall With the Missing Chairs: The UN Opens Its General Debate Under the Shadow of the Iran War

Nearly 130 leaders convene in New York as a seven-month war closes the Strait of Hormuz, the Secretary-General delivers his last annual address to a budget in retreat, and four of the world’s largest powers stay away.

World Politics  

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The general debate of the eighty…
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From a Two-Year Extension to a Proposed Crown: Zimbabwe's Term-Limit Fight Escalates

Harare  

Zimbabwe's already fraught battle over how long President Emmerson Mnangagwa will remain in office has taken an unexpected turn in recent weeks, moving from a constitutional amendment that pushed elections back to 2030 toward a fringe but increasingly debated proposal to abolish the republic…
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The Scanner and the Ledger: Why Cameroon's 2026 Recovery Depends on Institutions, Not Capital

Central Africa 

Cameroon enters the second half of 2026 with a macroeconomic profile that most of its neighbours would envy. Public debt is moderate by regional standards, inflation is heading back toward the Central African monetary union's convergence band, the regional central bank is cutting rates, and…