Sahle-Work Zewde: Moving Towards Gender Equality in Ethiopia
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African Nations: Ready For Mobile Voting Systems?
A More Convenient Way to Vote? Around the world today, advocates for mobile voting systems have recently urged lawmakers to change conventional polling booth technology to permit mobile voting. Estonia became the first nation to adopt Internet voting in 2005. Unfortunately, many security obstacles remain as governments consider this form of voting. Some election…
Oscar Contenders Announced – Mahershala Ali, Ruth Negga Nominated
In the wake of 2016’s controversial #OscarsSoWhite, addressing the lack of diversity among the Academy Award nominees, this year’s list of prospective Oscar recipients is somewhat more representative of top Hollywood talent today. While La La Land led the list by a wide margin with over a dozen nominations, a number of other memorable…
Misplaced Priorities: Trump’s Battle Against the Media Continues
Karma has a way of coming back around, and Donald Trump is starting to feel the pressure of the press and their push to delegitimize his presidency. Of course, Trump hammered Barack Obama during the eight years of his tenure, claiming that Obama wasn’t born in the United States, discrediting his right to…
Worm Wars: Is Deworming Project Helping African Children?
Over the past few decades, the World Health Organization has conducted large-scale prophylactic deworming of school children in developing nations in an attempt to eliminate the devastating health effects of intestinal parasites. Because it’s not considered cost effective to test for worms before treating, organizations have simply treated all school-age children in high infection…
