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Fatoumata Nafo

Fatoumata Nafo

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Fatoumata Nafo, Chair of the Board of the Foundation for Health and Environment in Mali, is a former executive director of the Roll Back Malaria Partnership and a former regional director of Africa at the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.

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  1. How Africa’s Local Knowledge Can Address Global Crises
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    How Africa’s Local Knowledge Can Address Global Crises

    May 26, 2022 Fatoumata Nafo shows why policymakers should heed community concerns when addressing major challenges such as climate change.

  2. Three Humanitarian Challenges for Africa in 2018
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    Three Humanitarian Challenges for Africa in 2018

    Feb 14, 2018 Fatoumata Nafo says breaking the continent's cycle of suffering will require new investments and grassroots solutions.

  3. Empowering Africa’s Humanitarians
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    Empowering Africa’s Humanitarians

    Aug 3, 2017 Fatoumata Nafo urges the global community to overhaul aid delivery to the continent’s most vulnerable people.

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    What Can Stop the Shortening of American Lives?

    Michael R. Bloomberg shows how a loss of public trust in public-health professionals is undercutting US life expectancy.
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    American Sinophobia

    Stephen S. Roach warns that fear has driven US policymakers to level a litany of unsubstantiated charges against China.
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    Africa’s Prosperity Depends on Achieving Gender Equality

    Jane Kabubo-Mariara outlines steps policymakers can take to redistribute unpaid domestic work among households and communities.
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    Texas and the Perpetual Crisis of American Federalism

    Alison L. LaCroix

    By asserting its right to pursue an immigration policy at odds with that of the US federal government, Texas is reviving a constitutional debate that recurred throughout the early nineteenth century, culminating in the Civil War. It is an ominous reminder that the perpetuation of the Union can never be taken for granted.

    highlights the constitutional threat posed by the state's attempt to impose its own immigration policy.
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    Europe’s High Noon

    Harold James

    With Ukraine depleted and overstretched, and with Russia posing a security threat to the Baltics and Europe more broadly, diplomatic and strategic coordination is more necessary than it has been since the end of the Cold War. Yet political leaders in Europe and the United States look too weak to rise to the occasion.

    worries that Western political leaders lack the will to take the risky decisions that security demands.
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    A Breakthrough Opportunity for Global Governance

    Mubarak Al-Kuwari, et al. propose new international institutions to confront today’s AI-regulation and peacebuilding challenges.
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    Why Is Europe Moving Rightward?

    Federico Fubini considers why nationalist parties are gaining ground in countries that renounced nationalism decades ago.
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    Who’s Afraid of Price Controls?

    Tom Krebs & Isabella M. Weber explain why Germany's economy is paying dearly for the government's failure to cap energy costs in 2022.
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    How to Save the Pandemic Treaty

    Mariana Mazzucato explains what it will take to prevent or minimize the costs of future contagious outbreaks like COVID-19.

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