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Bucket-wheel excavators mine rare earth materials on Ukrainian soil on February 25, 2025, in the Zhytomyr region of Ukraine. (Kostiantyn Liberov via Getty Images)
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Members of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary Catholic Church hold Stations of the Cross procession to reenact Good Friday in Ogba, Lagos, Nigeria, on April 7, 2023. (Adekunle Ajayi via Getty Images)
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Xi Jinping holds a welcome ceremony for Isaias Afwerki at the square outside the east entrance of the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on May 15, 2023. (Wang Ye via Getty Images)
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Smoke plumes billow from a fire at a lumber warehouse in southern Khartoum amidst ongoing fighting on June 7, 2023. (AFP via Getty Images)
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A police officer stops a car at a check point ahead of the February 25 presidential election at Awka in Anambra State, southeast Nigeria, on February 16, 2023. (Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP via Getty Images)
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Black smoke rises above the Khartoum International Airport amid ongoing battles on April 20, 2023. (AFP via Getty Images)
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Crowds of protestors on the run at Luis Edet house in Abuja, Nigeria. (Photo via Wikimedia Commons)
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Smoke billows in the distance in Khartoum amid ongoing fighting between the forces of two rival generals on May 15, 2023. (AFP via Getty Images)
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Smoke rises during clashes between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces in Khartoum, Sudan, on April 19, 2023. (Ahmed Satti/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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Nigerian Minister of Information and Culture Lai Mohammed and Hudson Senior Fellow Joshua Meservey at Hudson Institute in Washington, DC, on April 4, 2023. (Madeline Mills/Hudson Institute)
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Gondola church in Mozambique on July 18, 2013. (Maputo Moçambique via Wikimedia Commons)
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Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets with Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed in Washington, D.C. on December 13, 2022. (Freddie Everett via Flickr)
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James Barnett
Research Fellow
Joshua Meservey
Senior Fellow
Zineb Riboua
Research Fellow, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
