| State of the Union: How ‘Teleprompter Trump’ can win the night Posted: 29 Jan 2018 12:53 PM PST ![State of the Union: How 'Teleprompter Trump' can win the night]( "State of the Union: How 'Teleprompter Trump' can win the night") A less-familiar version of President Trump is expected to take the podium for his first State of the Union address Tuesday night. Call him Teleprompter Trump – the version who mostly sticks to the script, can be a bit stilted, and meets the standard definition of "presidential." Twitter Trump, who regularly sends unfiltered and at times provocative messages to his more than 47 million followers, will be on hold. The effect can be disruptive and contradictory, but it's all part of the essential Trump.
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| Africa eyes a new path to clean governance Posted: 29 Jan 2018 11:50 AM PST ![Africa eyes a new path to clean governance]( "Africa eyes a new path to clean governance") Africa's leaders ended a summit Jan. 29 with a new statistic on their thoughts: By 2063, the continent will see a tripling of the number of working-age people, to nearly 2 billion. To create jobs for Africa's coming population bulge, the leaders decided to focus their efforts this year on the one big obstacle to economic growth: corruption. Each year Africa loses about a quarter of its gross domestic product to corruption, either in petty bribes or wholesale looting of natural resources.
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| Gambia's diaspora helped oust a dictator. Now they're asking: What’s next? Posted: 29 Jan 2018 10:33 AM PST ![Gambia's diaspora helped oust a dictator. Now they're asking: What's next?]( "Gambia's diaspora helped oust a dictator. Now they're asking: What's next?") Fatu Camara was in the middle of one of her live-streamed, midnight shows on Jan. 21, 2017 when she interrupted regular programming to break the news: Gambian strongman Yahya Jammeh was fleeing the country, after 23 years of repressive rule. "I had thousands of people listening to the radio that night," says Ms. Camara, a Gambian exile living in the United States. For Camara and her listeners, some of the tens of thousands of Gambians who fled during Mr. Jammeh's repressive regime, it was a life-changing win – one they'd contributed to from afar.
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| Politics over peace? Critics say Ukraine's president sidelining Minsk accords. Posted: 29 Jan 2018 09:53 AM PST ![Politics over peace? Critics say Ukraine's president sidelining Minsk accords.]( "Politics over peace? Critics say Ukraine's president sidelining Minsk accords.") When Ukraine's parliament, the Rada, overwhelmingly passed a bill 10 days ago that fundamentally redefines the country's war against pro-Russian separatists in the restive East, it promised a much harder line out of Kiev regarding the conflict. Moscow cast the bill, which Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko supports and is expected to sign soon, as a declaration of war, noting that its passage coincides with a US decision to provide Kiev with lethal weapons. Public opinion surveys suggest Mr. Poroshenko's popularity is around 10 percent, on a par with his rival, Yulia Tymoshenko, who has been more holding a more militantly anti-Russian line.
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