Author: Emma Albright

Emma is French and American. After graduating from the Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris with a Master’s degree in bilingual journalism, she joined Worldrunch as a web journalist and content producer. Emma loves all things cultural and is an avid movie watcher.

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Why Western Outrage At War In Europe Never Makes It To Africa

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The Lost Girls of Sudan are refugees living in the Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya, about 90 miles south of the Sudan border. David Waters/ZUMA

The way armed conflicts have been represented in fiction for decades could explain the racism that has been revealed in Western media coverage of the war in Ukraine compared to multiple conflicts over the years in Africa.

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Geopolitics Ideas

Macron v. Le Pen, Why It’s Different This Time

Election documents of French presidential candidates such as Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen.
Election documents of French presidential candidates such as Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen, lie on top of each other. Daniel Karmann/dpa/ZUMA

The replay of the 2017 duel accentuates the political divide in the country, but holds higher risks for Macron as Le Pen adjusts her approach. Two key unknowns: how will Le Pen’s past support of Vladimir Putin play out, and what left-wing voters will do?

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Economy Geopolitics

Ukraine War, North African Food Shortages And Whiff Of A New Arab Spring

​Supporters of politician Abir Moussi and her Free Constitutional party protest against President Kais Saied during a rally in Tunis
Supporters of politician Abir Moussi protest against President Kais Saied during a rally in Tunis Hasan Mrad/IMAGESLIVE/ZUMA

Rising tensions in wheat productions, explosion of oil prices, fear of the unknown, could the Ukraine war lead to a popular Arab uprising similar to the one in 2011?

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