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In a recent email obtained by Axios, Gill unleashed a controversial message: "Friend, we should have never let Ilhan Omar into our country. The time has come to arrest and deport Ilhan Omar." One might ask, what fuels such fiery rhetoric in today's political arena? Ilhan Omar, a figure both emblematic and polarizing, symbolizes a shift in American political landscapes. Arriving in the United States in 1995 as a refugee from Somalia, she became a U.S. citizen by 17 and eventually the first Somali-American elected to…

Gilles Yabi, last week you launched a petition calling for the improvement of health systems in West Africa and you also organized on Wednesday 15 March a virtual roundtable discussion on how health structures work. Why this focus on health right now?…

In Tunisia, civil society figures condemn the words of an Islamist deputy who justified the assassination in France of history professor Samuel Paty. Coming from academia, research, or the art world, about forty of them have signed an unequivocal petition to condemn dumb remarks and demand justice. The signatories, primarily from progressive and modernist academia, find it scandalous that a member of the nation can afford to justify death by beheading of French teacher, reports our correspondent in Tunis, Michel Picard.…