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Africa: Has Africa Come of Age Now?

[This Day] On Sunday, January 11, it was exactly 50 years that former Head of State General Murtala Mohammed made an anti-imperialist statement at a summit of African leaders in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia. He was killed in an abortive coup on a Lagos street 33 days later, on

What would Iran look like the day after its regime falls?

If the Islamic Republic falls, a civil war could emerge from a fragmented opposition divided over strategy – both on how to topple the regime and on how to form a government to replace it. Despite his knack for public relations, the shah's son, Reza Pahlavi, could be part of