Ken Opalo
INSTITUTIONS & DEVELOPMENT. Asst. Prof @Georgetown. Affiliate @HoyaAfrica, @gui2de_GU, @BrookingsInst & @EGAPTweets. Lifetime travel companion of @vkwhatt.
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JUST IN: Morehouse commencement speaker to pay off Class of 2019’s student loans
Philanthropist has big surprise at commencement speech with announcement
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JUST IN: Morehouse commencement speaker to pay off Class of 2019’s student loans ajc.com/news/just-more… via @ajc
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India's Modi set to win election, exit polls show
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ruling alliance is likely to win a cl...
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India's Modi set to win election, exit polls show reut.rs/2HsRbff via @Reuters #IndiaDecides
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Vanilla fever
How did hunger for the humble vanilla pod lead to greed, crime and riches? Wendell Steavenson travels to Madagascar to meet the new spice barons
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Laura Codruta Kovesi: ‘There are so many myths about me’ via @FT cc @DCI_Kenya @EACCKenya
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US pastor runs network giving 50,000 Ugandans bleach-based ‘miracle cure’ | Uganda | The Guardian
Group led by Robert Baldwin and part-funded by Sam Little claims drinking toxic fluid will eradicate HIV/Aids and other diseases
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This is a public health disaster waiting to happen.
US pastor runs network giving 50,000 Ugandans bleach-based 'miracle cure' theguardian.com/world/2019/may… via @guardian
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There is less (ethnic) favoritism in the allocation of public sector jobs in Kenya and Uganda than you might think
This paper from LSE’s Rebecca Simson in African Affairs goes against a lot of my priors: The unfair distribution of public sector jobs is a common grievance in many societies, but arguably mo…
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There is less (ethnic) favoritism in the allocation of public sector jobs in Kenya and Uganda than you might think kenopalo.com/2019/05/14/the… pic.twitter.com/j2g2KmEYgk
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Microsoft Will Spend $100 Million on African Development Center
Sites in Nairobi, Lagos will recruit engineers for cloud, AI
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Microsoft Spends $100 Million to Open Development Centers in Lagos and Nairobi: bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via @technology @business
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Sudan's talks deadlocked as military mulls early elections
Stalemate in talks between Sudan's two sides, with the military council threatening to hold early elections if no deal is reached within six months.
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#Sudan Military threatens to hold early elections to break deadlock with civilian groups: aljazeera.com/news/2019/05/s… via @AlJazeera_World
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A primer on the political crisis in Sudan
This is a great take on the political crisis in Sudan (the comparisons with Ethiopia are highly illuminating, too). Here’s a section on General Muhammad Hamdan Dagalo, the Eastern Darfuri mil…
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A primer on the political crisis in Sudan kenopalo.com/2019/05/11/a-p… pic.twitter.com/sfnf0bi60j
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The Rally-Intensive Campaign: A Distinct Form of Electioneering in Sub-Saharan Africa and Beyond - Dan Paget, 2019
I consider how to characterize and classify election campaigns in sub-Saharan Africa. I revisit the typology proposed by Pippa Norris, which distinguishes betwe...
Sarah Sanders hopes people remember her as being 'transparent and honest'
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said on Tuesday that she hopes to be remembered as being “transparent and honest” when her tenure in the role comes to an end.
School district to serve cold sandwiches to students who owe lunch money
A Rhode Island school district is under fire after announcing that students whose families owe lunch money will be served cold sandwiches instead of hot food starting next week.
Georgia Just Criminalized Abortion. Women Who Terminate Their Pregnancies Would Be Subject to Life in Prison.
Women who miscarry or get legal abortions out of state could also be imprisoned.
On the political transition in Angola
This is from Presidential Power: The August 2017 elections in Angola represented a case of electoral succession in the sense that the new president comes from the same party of the outgoing preside…
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On the political transition in Angola kenopalo.com/2019/05/07/on-… pic.twitter.com/nali1hWET2
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The château, the oil trader and a $1.3bn scandal
Boasting a “superb view over Lake Geneva and the Alps”, seven bedrooms, a cinema room and extensive grounds with tennis courts and a swimming pool, the 19th-century château in Switzerland was...