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11.11: Why today is one of the most special dates of the year

Dubai: I’ll admit it. Whenever I catch the clock at 11:11, I stop for a second. I don’t plan it, and I don’t always know what I’m wishing for, but something in me says, go on, make one. Today, that feeling is everywhere. It’s 11.11, the eleventh day of the eleventh month, and the date looks almost too tidy to be real. Four ones, lined up neatly like they’re waiting for something to happen. Get…

11.11: Why today is one of the most special dates of the year

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Feature: No External Saviour: Three Russia-Africa Summits And The Strategy Africa Is Failing To Table

On 28 and 29 October, Moscow hosted the Russia-Africa summit. It was the third, not the first, and that matters, because the record of the first two is the best guide to how the third should be…

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