This article was first published on my LinkedIn a few days after Kofi Annan died on August 18 2018. It has been two years since Kofi Annan the former United Nations Secretary-General passed away at the age of 80. The encomiums came pouring in very quickly. Current United Nations Secretary-General…

“We are at war!” declared the French President Emmanuel Macron as he announced the lockdown measures in France against the COVID-19 pandemic on 16 March 2020. In this war against the invisible virus, governments have adopted border closure as an important weapon. How effective has it been? The COVID-19 pandemic…