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4 days ago · The August 2020 coup in the troubled West African nation was set off by public anger with corrupt rulers backed by former colonial power France, a spreading jihadist insurgency and economic hardship. Many are still waiting for life to improve. “The way they’ve handled the electricity situation is a problem. Many Malians are experiencing ...
13 hours ago · Published Aug. 22, 2024, 3:01 p.m. ET. 13 Comments. Former President Donald Trump promoted his family’s upcoming cryptocurrency platform called “The DeFiant Ones” in a Truth Social post on ...
9 hours ago · Trump announces new crypto project. Former President Trump on Thursday announced a new cryptocurrency project called “The DeFiant Ones” but offered few details about the enterprise. “For too ...
1 day ago · The ‘scared ones’ go from being 25-30%, who sometimes voted for MAS, to becoming a stronger opposition; they’re never homogenous, and they’re always fragmented.
1 day ago · 2 Sinaloa cartel leaders, including son of "El Chapo," arrested in Texas 02:02. The murders of at least 10 people in the northern Mexican state of Sinaloa appear to be linked to infighting in the ...
3 days ago · When Corrupt Justices Define Official Corruption. If the six rightwing dogmatists who now literally rule the U.S. Supreme Court wonder why 70 percent of the American people consider them somewhere between politically corrupt and grotesque, they might reread their Kafkaesque decision in June that perverted the meaning of bribery. Expand.
1 day ago · Recent protests show that citizens can demand accountability from their leaders instead of waiting for coups to fix broken governments. Despite decades of democracy, many African countries have yet to realise the anticipated dividends. Accountability, a key feature in representative democracy, is largely missing from the continent’s politics.
