The sahel region stretches across africa, just south of the sahara ghottis there are feeling increasingly emboldened. Is west africa prepared? And it's time for our annual glass ceiling index, looking at the role and influence of women in the work force. As we find every year, there's still plenty of progress to be made.
With the propaganda machine at fever pitch, not everyone in Russia agrees on—much less agrees with—what is going on in Ukraine. Dissent is being met with increasing repression. A wave of jihadism is crashing across the states of West Africa and the battle lines are moving south. And reasons for both hope and concern in our annual glass-ceiling index.
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