You see their faces plastered across newspapers and even catch a glimpse on the evening news, but you never really get a clear picture of what a day in the life of a refugee is like, and now you can thanks to Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), where you …
Africa’s largest economy, with US$276 billion in GDP, is the continent’s rising power. With 48 million people, it is not the continent’s most populous, with a lower population than oil-rich Nigeria (155 million) and Egypt (80 million), the world’s most populous Arab nation. But South Africa is richer than these countries, in …
In a sign of growing cooperation between Iraq and Iran, the Iraqi armed forces took control of Mujahadeen-e-Khalq’s (MEK)- also known as People’s Mujahideen of Iran (PMOI)- main compound north of Baghdad, camp Ashraf. It is believed that a number of high-ranking officials and …
So is Zimbabwe entering a new era of openness, as embodied in the country unbanning the BBC, or is Zim still Robert Mugabe’s plaything, as indicated by threats that he is going to shut down the operation of NGO’s in the country? The only …
Twenty German companies are working together to harness the North African sun to provide up to 15% of all German electricity needs while at the same time providing power within North Africa. Certainly the sun is a renewable resource that Africa enjoys in abundance. And if it works, this might …
In a predictable turn of events, the violence between the military and radical Islamists in northeast Nigeria has led to a growing refugee crisis. President Umaru Yar’Adua has vowed that the military will finish this fight and will hunt down and punish perpetrators of violence. This conflict has all of …
Block out some time and commit it to this epic New Republic piece on Leopold Munyakazi, a Rwandan who came to the United States after his country’s genocide, became a professor at Goucher College and who may or may not have been one of the Hutu genocidaires …
BUT now these companies, solely in the name of corporate profitability, reciprocate neither their loyalty, nor duty to Americans to be good corporate citizens. Here we have a case in point about GE methodically shipping their entire energy efficient lighting manufacturing operation out of Ohio to China with the primary reason being given as lower labor costs.
Honduras is just having problems these days. First its president wants to throw selected parts of the constitution out the window. Then the military throws the president out of the country. And now after a month of international diplomatic drama with the interim government, a major collection of human rights …
Two prominent publications ran op-eds on settlements, with one writer slamming the settler movement and another editorial board citing the Obama Administration for mismanagement of the issue.
Tel Aviv University Professor Asher Susser wrote a damning op-ed in Haaretz today, condemning the settler movement for considering itself guardians of …
The Iranian and Russian governments pegged an upcoming military exercise as an anti-pollution and search and rescue operation. However, the joint maneuver, involving 30 naval units from the two countries, is likely a show of strength and joint cooperation in order to warn countries intending on striking either …
Several years ago, the U.S. Interests Section in Havana—which functions as the American diplomatic mission in Cuba in the absence of formal relations—installed a “billboard” along the fifth floor of the building: an electronic news ticker running pro-democracy and anti-Castro regime messages in bright crimson letters.
Fidel Castro at that time …
A meeting between Pakistani Prime Minister Gilani and Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh at the Non-Aligned Summit (NAM) resumed cooperative talks since they had stalled after the Mumbai atrocities. The summit marked a breakthrough in Indian-Pakistani relations when both sides decided to bracket issues of terrorism from future …
Yesterday we posted that Iran was releasing some prisoners who were detained for protesting last month’s presidential election. It has now come out that Shadi Sadr, a major women’s rights lawyer in Iran, was released from Evin Prison. Her arrest, which we …
Today both the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times carried stories on the prison abuse going on in Iran. The New York Times reported:
Some prisoners say they watched fellow detainees being beaten to death by guards in overcrowded, stinking holding pens. Others …
