Arrests have spread across Nigeria as dozens more people perceived to be gay have been rounded up and questioned, activists said Friday, describing another wave of police attention unleashed by a wide-ranging new anti-gay law.
Uganda president refuses to sign anti-gay law →
The only positive in the whole article.
Last-Ditch Effort Emerges to Restore Order in Central African Republic →
...an unlikely experiment in instant nation-building is underway: a vote for president. Inspired equally by desperation and pressure from abroad, a “national transition council” of 135 rebels, rivals, politicians and everyone in between is making a last-ditch lunge for order, hoping to choose a new leader for this fractured country within days.
Madagascar: court approves new leader →
A court in Madagascar has confirmed the presidential election victory of Hery Rajaonarimampianina, a candidate who was backed by the country's former strongman.
The special electoral court on Friday rejected allegations of vote-rigging and recount demands by rival Robinson Jean Louis...
Why Egypt’s new constitution may not turn out as badly as you think →
On Jan. 14 and 15, Egyptians voted on a heavily revised version of the December 2012 charter authored by President Mohamed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood — an illiberal document that alienated the military and secular groups and helped precipitate a coup against Morsi last July. The constitution is expected to pass with resounding support.
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Yet the new charter heavily favors the military and undercuts Islamists. Religious parties such as the Muslim Brotherhood are banned from political participation. The military retains the right to try civilians in military courts. And the armed forces have a veto over the choice of defense minister for two presidential terms.
Is the U.S. secretly backing a Mexican drug cartel? Probably not. →
I posted the original article a couple days ago. This covers several good counterpoints to that earlier article's headline claim. Re-reading that one, I noticed there's very little evidence cited toward it, though there is a lot about bureaucratic coverup of international murder.
CONFIRMED: The DEA Struck A Deal With Mexico's Most Notorious Drug Cartel →
Playing one criminal against another's one thing, but heads should roll (sometimes I really wish *literally*) for this:
An investigation by El Universal found that between the years 2000 and 2012, the U.S. government had an arrangement with Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel that allowed the organization to smuggle billions of dollars of drugs while Sinaloa provided information on rival cartels.
Sinaloa, led by Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, supplies 80% of the drugs entering the Chicago area and has a presence in cities across the U.S.
Academics Protest Bavaria's About-Face on Publishing 'Mein Kampf' →
The Bavarian government, which owns the copyright to the infamous tome, has unexpectedly withdrawn its funding for the project—some 500,000 euros. Moreover, it now says it will pursue legal action against any German publishers that release Mein Kampf after December 31, 2015, when the copyright expires, under laws banning hate speech and incitement.