| A candidate’s message for Nigerian politics: Make way for women Posted: 13 Feb 2019 10:55 AM PST ![A candidate's message for Nigerian politics: Make way for women]( "A candidate's message for Nigerian politics: Make way for women") As she made her way along a lumpy dirt road clutching a stack of her own campaign flyers, Zainab Umar considered the odds against her. In the entire 40-year history of the local House of Assembly here, in the most populous state in Nigeria's north, a woman has never been elected as a member. In the days before elections, for as long as she could remember, candidates for the two major parties rode into her neighborhood in their clean, expensive cars doling out little bags of salt, thick wedges of soap, and crisp 1000 naira bills ($3).
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| In Arab world, a new alliance is on the rise Posted: 13 Feb 2019 10:50 AM PST ![In Arab world, a new alliance is on the rise]( "In Arab world, a new alliance is on the rise") Across the Middle East, from Iraq to North Africa, a new informal alignment of Sunni Arab countries is quietly influencing developments. The alliance – comprising Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Kuwait, Jordan, and Egypt – is stepping up as a leading actor in the Arab world with a voice on issues ranging from postwar Syria and the thwarting of Iran to diplomatic overtures on the Yemen and Israeli-Palestinian conflicts.
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