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Daily Dispatch | Tuesday | March 21st 2017
 
 
 
 
France’s presidential election: En garde
With a debate between the five main candidates on national television last night, the campaign has now begun in earnest. The stakes were highest for the two front-runners, Emmanuel Macron, a pro-EU independent who has never been elected to any post, and Marine Le Pen of the far-right National Front. Both did well enough to cheer supporters, offering a preview of the increasingly likely second-round match-up between them
 
 
 
Trump and Russia: Republican what-about-ism
Yesterday James Comey, the FBI’s director, confirmed that the bureau is investigating the Trump campaign’s ties with the Russian government. Faced with this news, Republicans on the House intelligence committee seemed to suggest that the most pressing national-security issue is that information regarding these ties had been leaked to the press. This makes so little sense as to be an affront to reason, writes our United States editor
 
 
 
 
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Martin McGuinness: The means to the end
From 1976 Mr McGuinness, who died today, controlled the Irish Republican Army, groomed its volunteers and ran its bloody campaigns. And yet there he was, in 1997, minister of education in Northern Ireland’s first unionist-republican power-sharing executive. In 2014, all smiles, he shook the hand of Queen Elizabeth. People were confounded by the change. Yet to his mind, there had been no change at all
 
 
 
 
Nigeria’s economy: Coffer up
Last month Nigeria issued a 15-year, $1bn eurobond—a bond in a currency other than that of the country issuing it—that was eight times oversubscribed. A second issuance, expected this month, will probably be met with similar enthusiasm. Nigeria, one of Africa’s least-indebted nations, is benefiting from pent-up demand for African sovereign debt. Recent moves to reform its economy and clean up corruption have helped, too
 
 
 
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