Tag: Africa

When Liberation Parties Govern

James H. Barnett · March 2, 2018 9:00 am

"Not many people are aware that we're behind some of our allies and adversaries in terms of artillery pieces. Germany, for example, is ahead of us in artillery. So, we're quickly catching up and passing. I just want to get back to the point where America has the best of everything," Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., said in an interview with the Washington Examiner. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Jim Inhofe’s Pentagon wish list: More money for missile defense

Travis J. Tritten · February 27, 2018 5:01 am

The Center for Migration Studies of New York estimates 10.79 million people are in the country illegally and says that figure is down almost 1 million people from the 11.725 million in 2010. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

US illegal immigrant population fell by nearly 1 million since 2010: Think tank

Anna Giaritelli · February 22, 2018 10:28 pm

In this frame-grab from South African Broadcasting Corporation state-run television, President Jacob Zuma is interviewed on Wednesday. The speaker of South Africa's parliament wants to hold a motion of no confidence in Zuma on Thursday afternoon. saying the timing of the vote by open ballot must be agreed upon by the parliament's program committee later Wednesday. Both the ruling African National Congress party and opposition parties are pushing for a parliamentary vote against Zuma, who has not responded to an order from his own party to leave office. (AP Photo)

Beltway Confidential

President Jacob Zuma is desecrating Nelson Mandela’s legacy and South Africa’s future

Tom Rogan · February 14, 2018 6:12 pm

George Soros is entitled to push whatever interests he wants. And we conservatives should be magnanimous enough to accept that not every cause he has backed is wrong. Sure, a lot of them are: He seems obsessed with building up undemocratic supranational structures. But he has also given money to undermine Communist states, as well as to alleviate poverty in Africa. (Jasper Juinen/Bloomberg)

In defense of George Soros

Dan Hannan · February 12, 2018 5:01 am

The International Planned Parenthood Federation is one of the organizations among the four that no longer receives U.S. funding under the Trump administration's "Mexico City Policy." (Daniel Acker/Bloomberg)

Four organizations forgo funding following Mexico City abortion policy

Kimberly Leonard · February 8, 2018 11:57 pm

Roughly 87 migrants died Thursday evening after their ship capsized while attempting to transit the Mediterranean Sea from Libya to Sicily or the Italian mainland. (AP Photo/Bram Janssen)

Beltway Confidential

European and Libyan governments are letting African children drown

Tom Rogan · February 2, 2018 9:52 pm

Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., said that whenever President Trump appears on TV, "there should be a disclaimer that says, 'This may not be acceptable for children.'"

Maxine Waters: Parental advisory should appear when Trump is on TV

Melissa Quinn · February 1, 2018 2:03 pm

During the meeting, Kellyanne Conway reflected on the president's first year in office and offered a taste of Trump's State of the Union. But the White House counselor hardly mentioned the president's agenda for Africa. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

State Department: Kellyanne Conway meeting with ambassadors was about Trump accomplishments, State of the Union

Melissa Quinn · January 31, 2018 8:19 pm

Congressional Democrats participated in more than one kind of protest during Tuesday night's State of the Union address. (Win McNamee/Pool via AP)

Democrats decry Trump’s ‘divisive’ State of the Union

Laura Barrón-López · January 31, 2018 6:53 am

President Trump may have lost the popular vote, but Republicans have been winning the popular vote at the state and local levels for years. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Beltway Confidential

Racism: the first and final insult of losers

Daniel Oliver · January 31, 2018 5:01 am

Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., said the EPA chief, "Can I assume, like all decent Americans, you did not find Morocco, a North African nation, to be a shithole when you visited?" Duckworth was referring to reports that President Trump referred to African nations as "shithole countries" during an immigration policy meeting. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Energy and Environment

Tammy Duckworth asks Trump’s EPA chief if Morocco is a ‘shithole’

John Siciliano · January 30, 2018 6:27 pm