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May 24, 2012

Sub-Saharan Africa
Why NOT to Designate Boko Haram a Foreign Terrorist Organization

Asch Harwood coauthored this post. Asch is the Africa research associate at the Council on Foreign Relations. A group of Nigeria watchers, including myself, has sent the secretary of state a letter …

Smoke rises from the police headquarters as people run for safety after Boko Haram bomb blasts in Nigeria's northern city of Kano January 20, 2012.
Blog Post by John Campbell Africa in Transition

November 18, 2009

Global
Symposium on Organized Crime in the Western Hemisphere: An Overlooked Threat?

Session One:Organized Crime and Transnational ThreatsDavid Holiday, Program Officer, Latin America Program, Open Society InstituteWilliam F. Wechsler, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Counte…

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November 14, 2013

Sub-Saharan Africa
The United States Designates Boko Haram and Ansaru as Foreign Terrorist Organizations

On November 13, the White House announced that the United States had formally designated Boko Haram and Ansaru as Foreign Terrorist Organizations and Specially Designated Global Terrorists. This come…

A woman sits amongst the burnt ruins of the Bama Market, which was destroyed by gunmen in last Thursday's attack, in Maiduguri, northeast Nigeria April 29, 2013.
Blog Post by John Campbell Africa in Transition

August 13, 2015

Wars and Conflict
Sexual Violence: Part and Parcel of the Political Economy of Terrorist Organizations

A lead story in today’s New York Times reports, “The systematic rape of women and girls from the Yazidi religious minority has become deeply enmeshed in the organization and the radical theology of t…

A displaced woman from the minority Yazidi sect, fleeing violence in Iraq, looks out from an abandoned house where she is taking refuge in the southeastern Turkish town of Silopi
Blog Post by Catherine Powell Women Around the World

July 14, 2016

Health
Podcast: The Next Director-General of the World Health Organization

The following is a guest post by my colleague Yanzhong Huang, senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations. The term of the current director-general of the World Health Organ…

World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Margaret Chan leaves the podium after her speech at the sixty-ninth World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland, on May 23, 2016.
Blog Post by Guest Blogger for the Internationalist The Internationalist