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Cameroon’s Government Is Deceiving the West While Diverting Foreign Aid

Paul Biya’s regime is ignoring the battle against Boko Haram and the Islamic State and using foreign counterterrorism assistance to fund its brutal repression of citizens with legitimate grievances.

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Chris W.J. Roberts, Billy Burton

Paul Biya Is Offering Cameroon’s Anglophones Too Little, Too Late

The Cameroonian government is seeking to implement a 1996 law it refused to enact for over two decades. The policy represents a fig leaf, not genuine decentralization, and will not resolve a crisis of Biya’s own making.

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R. Maxwell Bone

In the Trenches With the Colonizer

The French Senegalese writer David Diop revises the modernist archetype with a protagonist long excluded from World War I literature: the African soldier on the front lines.

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Jessi Jezewska Stevens

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The real grievances behind the Ethiopian conflict, Pompeo acknowledges that the two-state solution is dead, and a look at a possible Pentagon pick.

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When the best scene in a movie is deleted

The other day someone sent along this scene from We Were Soldiers Once. This strikes me as the heart of the movie. It would have been better if this had been included.

By Thomas E. Ricks

| November 4, 2015, 10:07 AM

The other day someone sent along this scene from We Were Soldiers Once… This strikes me as the heart of the movie. It would have been better if this had been included.

It makes me wonder how many other movies had their souls cut out of them.

Image credit: Wikimedia Commons

Thomas E. Ricks covered the U.S. military from 1991 to 2008 for the Wall Street Journal and then the Washington Post. He can be reached at ricksblogcomment@gmail.com. Twitter: @tomricks1

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Cameroon’s Government Is Deceiving the West While Diverting Foreign Aid

Paul Biya Is Offering Cameroon’s Anglophones Too Little, Too Late

In the Trenches With the Colonizer

Our Top Weekend Reads

Best Defense

When the best scene in a movie is deleted

The other day someone sent along this scene from We Were Soldiers Once. This strikes me as the heart of the movie. It would have been better if this had been included.

Cameroon’s Government Is Deceiving the West While Diverting Foreign Aid

Paul Biya Is Offering Cameroon’s Anglophones Too Little, Too Late

In the Trenches With the Colonizer

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