‘I’m fighting for my life,’ said Ahmed Soliman after the latest in a string of abusive incidents in Equatorial Guinea, where ICE expelled him five months ago.
Africa
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‘What America Did to Me Is Wrong’: Inside One of the Largest Third-Country Removal Flights So Far
On July 31, an estimated 71 detainees were expelled to various countries on a hellish flight to Africa. Many were then illegally returned to their home countries.
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Liberia Joins Trump’s ‘Third-Country Deportation’ Network
The African republic says it will take up to 1,200 noncitizen deportees beginning with the flight on Thursday.
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Palestine, Writing, and Everything Else
Ta-Nehisi Coates’s lovely little book on big, urgent matters
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
A Feel-Good Movie That Almost Makes You Feel Bad
‘The Greatest Night in Pop’ is uplifting and happy-sad. It was a more innocent time.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Pharma Giants Block Access to Vaccine Doses for Research
Pfizer and Moderna are preventing scientists from using their current vaccines for research. The U.S. should act now to restore competition.
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Tanzania and Nigeria Struggle With Water Access, Quality
As the climate crisis intensifies and COVID-19 persists, the two countries still confront problems that privatization efforts never solved.
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Will Biden Put Pressure on Sudan?
Sudanese protesters say the U.S. must sanction the coup plotters of Khartoum.
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The ‘War on Terror’ Accelerates in Africa
Military-first policy failed Afghanistan. So why is Biden continuing the approach?
Posted inLaw and Justice
The Rise of the Private Police
In South Africa, private security companies have eclipsed the police force, threatening the state’s democratic authority and replicating apartheid-era racial inequality. Is the U.S. next?