| A lesson from Nigeria to Trump? Posted: 27 Apr 2018 11:57 AM PDT ![A lesson from Nigeria to Trump?]( "A lesson from Nigeria to Trump?") On Monday, the president of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, will become the first African leader to meet President Trump at the White House. Much of the meeting will probably focus on what the United States can do for Nigeria. Nigeria may be one of the few countries willing to negotiate with a branch of Islamic State (ISIS), part of its decade-long struggle with jihadi groups such as Boko Haram.
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| In back-to-back visits, Macron and Merkel look for manageable middle with Trump Posted: 27 Apr 2018 11:39 AM PDT ![In back-to-back visits, Macron and Merkel look for manageable middle with Trump]( "In back-to-back visits, Macron and Merkel look for manageable middle with Trump") It's a question that Europe has been posing for more than a year: How do you solve a problem like the Donald? The continent's heaviest political hitters offered their answers to that question this week, as French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel sought in turn to figure out what makes President Trump tick, and how to head off a looming transatlantic rupture. "It has been a learning curve, and rather a squiggly one" for European leaders dealing with the unpredictable American president, says James Moran, a former European Union ambassador.
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| In Congo, a new national museum renews quest to reclaim history Posted: 27 Apr 2018 10:28 AM PDT ![In Congo, a new national museum renews quest to reclaim history]( "In Congo, a new national museum renews quest to reclaim history") In a hilltop park high above Congo's capital city, Batekele Mabanza Jose sits watch over his country's history. All around him, eras of the country's past are shoved together like layers of metamorphic rock. On one side of the park, vines crawl over the bars of a cage that in the 1970s held one of former President Mobutu Sese Seko's pet leopards.
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| Iraq’s Shiite militias try to convert military victory into political power Posted: 27 Apr 2018 09:13 AM PDT ![Iraq's Shiite militias try to convert military victory into political power]( "Iraq's Shiite militias try to convert military victory into political power") At the entrance to one of Baghdad's biggest amusement parks is an election banner for Hadi al-Amiri, senior commander of the mainly Shiite militias that helped vanquish Islamic State jihadists and now aim to win Iraqis' votes. "They own the place," laughs the guard, tongue-in-cheek, about Iraq's ubiquitous militias, when asked about the banner at a park run by the Baghdad municipality.
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