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The Nile has always been more than a river. It is memory, identity and survival braided together across north-east Africa. Today, as the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam rises on the Blue Nile, that ...

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Shortly after Donald Trump was elected president for the first time, someone asked me in a public forum whether I thought he was a fascist.  I replied that Trump was an ultra-nationalist conservative ...