The definition of the area covered varies widely from one author to another. For some, the Sahel includes all the territories bordering the Sahara: there is therefore a northern Sahel and a southern Sahel. However, it is the latter that is designated when no qualifier is added. The sub-Saharan Sahel is divided into five parts: the Mauritanian Sahel

At the core of Yunus’ electoral reform agenda is an updated voter list, a deceptively simple yet notably complex challenge. After years of politically manipulated elections, voter rolls have become symbols of institutional decay. Purging false names, addressing registration backlogs and enfranchising Bangladesh’s burgeoning youth population rem

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Within NATO, a lowest-common-denominator consensus holds that Ukraine is not eligible for membership while at war with Russia, lest NATO itself be drawn into the war. A small but growing number of allied governments simply rule out Ukraine’s membership (at least for those serving governments’ remaining time in office). Some allies would postpon

In the case of the Tibetan ethnic minority, though the demand for genuine autonomy by the Tibetan representative emerged more recently, essentially it was already featured way back in 17 Point Agreement in May 1951, as para 3 underlined that, “the Tibetan people have the right of exercising national regional autonomy under the unified leadership