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Alexandre Raymakers

Alexandre Raymakers

Alex Raymakers is an undergraduate student in History and International Relations
at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He has lived in Africa, notably Kenya, for most of his life. He writes about African affairs for The London Globalist.

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  By the end of 2014, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) troops stationed in Afghanistan will leave the country. Indeed, after almost 13 years of war, the combat troops …

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South Africa held its breath last week as the African National Congress (ANC) gathered at its five-yearly conference in Mangaung (‘Place of Cheetahs in Sesotho but Bloemfontein on a map) …

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Throughout the last 60 years, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been the centrepiece of the major geo-political issues in international society. Every year, the conflict and its insurmountable problems re-surface in …