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Waiting to Die of Thirst: Ethiopia, Egypt, Sudan, and the GERD
Photo Credit: Olof von Gawinski By Michael KeeneStaff Writer In northeast Africa, a tragedy of epic proportions has been playing out for decades. Ethiopia’s ongoing construction of a massive $4.5 billion dam over the Nile River’s largest tributary has led to an increasingly volatile East African environment, in which old colonial practices, climate change, and…
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Israeli Citizens Protest Against Netanyahu’s Supreme Court
Photo Credit: Ahmad Gharabli By Emma Zucker-MurrayStaff Writer The current Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, is currently on trial for corruption. It doesn’t seem coincidental that at the same time, he has now begun to attempt to change the way that the supreme court system works in Israel. With the changes he’s pushing, he…
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TikTok: Is a Ban Imminent?
Photo Credit: Olivier Douliery By Isabelle R. StadStaff Writer Last month, TikTok CEO Shou Chew was barraged with questions from American lawmakers in a 5-hour-long Congressional hearing, amid a bipartisan call to ban the popular entertainment app entirely. In the U.S., it has always been widely condemned that China censors apps such as Youtube and…