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Nigeria Struggles To Rein In Corruption

Despite a president touting reform, allegations that $20 billion in oil revenue have vanished aren’t helping Nigeria along its path to achieving credibility in its fight against corruption.

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For decades, Nigeria has had a notorious reputation as a country rife with graft. In the early 2000s, it ranked among the top three most-corrupt countries in the world for several consecutive years. According to a BBC expose published this week, Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan wants to change the image of his country, Africa’s largest oil

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Outgoing NSA Chief Confident Of ‘Reporter-Gag’ Legislation On Fed Leaks

Keith Alexander also criticized the media in the process of suggesting Congressional legislation to make it a crime to report on leaked government information was in the works.

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Keith Alexander, Peter King

Still facing the fallout from Edward Snowden’s revelations about the workings of the National Security Agency, Army Gen. Keith Alexander, outgoing director of the NSA, is using the time he has left in his tenure to rein in the U.S. media. While speaking at a cybersecurity panel last week, Alexander said legislation that would make it a crime to

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Libya Grapples For Control Over Its Eastern Ports

An extraordinary standoff between the Libyan navy and eastern rebels, who are attempting to complete the first independent sale of oil by a non-state body, shows just how unstable Libya is.

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In a show of how unstable Libya is right now, authorities there captured, then lost, then re-captured an oil tanker bearing North Korean flags after it docked and departed from an oil port controlled by rebels in Eastern Libya. In the aftermath of the debacle, the nation’s legislative branch, the General National Congress, fired Prime Minister Ali

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Dying Boy Denied Drug By Vexing Interests Of Pharmaceutical Company

Though critically-ill people are allowed by the FDA to take non-approved medications, Chimerix, a small drug company in North Carolina, is not giving a life-saving drug to a boy laying in a Tennessee hospital.

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Josh Hardy

March 14, 2014 update: Since this article was published, Chimerix has provided Brincidofovir to Josh Hardy as the first patient in its new open-label study in patients with adenovirus infections. As seven-year-old Josh Hardy lies in a bed in St. Jude’s Hospital in Memphis, a drug maker is refusing to give him the medicine that could

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Use Of Intimidation To Stifle Israeli Critics Rebuked By Academics

The Maryland General Assembly is considering legislation that would bar public universities from providing funds to academic organizations that support boycotts of Israel. Academics nationwide are speaking out against the measure.

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SWITZERLAND RASHID KHALIDI

As the debate over Israel’s policies rages, so, too, does the tone with which the debate plays out. And as pro-Palestinian advocates sound their opinions, the response varies, but some of the worst vitriol is leveled against those who associate themselves with the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. That would include the American

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CIA Spying On Senate Intelligence Committee Breach On Separation Of Powers

Advocates want a 6,000-word report on a Senate Intelligence Committee’s investigation into the CIA’s post-9/11 use of torture declassified.

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James Clapper, John Brennan, James Comey, Michael Flynn,

Following the attacks on the United States in September 2001, how the Central Intelligence Agency detained and interrogated terrorists, or suspected terrorists, became a point of contention. The CIA eventually undertook a campaign to employ extraordinary rendition when needed by capturing agency and military targets, then shuffling them around the

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After Years Of Famine, Somali Farmers Now Supplying Grain For Hunger Relief Programs

Conflicts and droughts have crippled Somali farmers’ ability to feed their country, but with help from several governmental and non-governmental aid groups, things are improving for the Horn of Africa nation.

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Somalia Civil War Aid

After decades of food relief agencies providing food to Somalis, Somali farmers will now provide food to feed their countrymen by contributing high-quality grain to the U.N.’s World Food Program (WFP), according to the U.N. Farmers from south-central Somalia have sold 200 metric tons of high-quality maize to WFP. Their grain contributions will be

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