Rahmane Idrissa

Sudan’s Repressed Democracy

The fighting in Khartoum, now in its third month, is the latest disaster for a democracy movement that has long resisted Sudan’s ruling regimes.

Potent Policies of Empire

The contest in Mali between the West and Russia is not a front in a new cold war but rather part of a scramble for Africa’s resources.

Pandemic Journal, March 23–29

Brief dispatches by New York Review writers documenting the coronavirus outbreak around the world, including Michael Greenberg in Brooklyn, Raquel Salas Rivera in San Juan, Aida Alami in Paris, Rahmane Idrissa in Niamey, and more.