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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks during a news conference at the Pentagon on June 22, 2025. (Andrew Harnik 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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A priest recites the stations of the cross prayers at the Holy Cross Cathedral in Lagos, Nigeria, on February 24, 2023. (John Wessels/AFP via Getty Images)
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James Barnett
Research Fellow
Garrett Exner
Adjunct Fellow
Joshua Meservey
Senior Fellow
Zineb Riboua
Research Fellow, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
