Quoting AFP, AfricaNews is reporting that the US Agency for International Development (USAid) has donated $10m to a project aimed at combating sexual violence in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo(DRC) where armed groups and rebel militias attack and raped civilians. Certainly this is welcome news, but it should not end here. All […]
In two separate articles, the Washington Post and the New York Times revealed that despite having prior knowledge of the 2008 Mumbai attacks, the FBI failed to inform their Indian counterparts of the threats looming ahead.
NATO’s Afghanistan force ISAF has been strategically bombing rushedly discovered Taliban and Al Qaeda locations for some time now. This scaled up move is designed to get the Taliban leadership to the negotiating table. No doubt, apart from major disruptive turns away from the chosen path, the strategy is understood to be working. ISAF is […]
South Sudan Trains Future Police Force: Margaret Besheer | Rejaf, South Sudan 16 October 2010 South Sudan police cadets are training ahead of the upcoming referendum on independence. In southern Sudan preparations are underway for the referendum scheduled for January 9 that will decide whether that part of the country secedes from the north. Part […]
It can’t have come as much of a surprise that Khaleda Zia would put together another week-long program of country wide public protests. After all, she’s about to be kicked out of her home. But to this writer this is one scream, one time too many, too much, too often, ad nauseum, a pitched battle […]
The self-described whistleblower website, WikiLeaks, will release as many as 400,000 sensitive military documents on the U.S. mission in Iraq as early as next week.
Ok, so this criticism is pretty picayune, but in his review of Tony Blair’s new memoir, A Journey: My Political Life, Fareed Zakaria writes the following sentence: “The fact is that Bill Clinton and Tony Blair were the two most successful political figures in the post-cold-war world because they understood the essential truth of economic […]
So George Clooney and celebrity Africa activist John Prendergast think that we (the US, its allies) need to do more with regard to the situation in the Sudan. Fair enough. Prendergast has long been an advocate for the Sudanese people and while I could do with less of his retiring-to-the-fainting-couch appeals to emotion, and while […]
The War in Afghanistan has fallen off the American’s people’s radar. It raises the question: was it ever on the people’s radar–that is after the hooooohaaahhh of ramped up, spoon fed nationalism faded to the recyclable detritus of our ill-appreciated commuter lives. Yes. From 2001 until 2007, one might do well to vaguely recall the […]
AfricaNews is reporting that a Zimbabwean security consultant and a Somali aid worker working for Save the Children organization were kidnapped by unknown gunmen armed with heavy machine-guns in the town of Adado near the Ethiopian border. The security consultant who is also believed to be a British national had reportedly gone to Adado to […]
The High Court has paved the way for opposition leader Khaleda Zia to get kicked out of her house situated in Dhaka’s Cantonment. It doesn’t help her cause that the house she has occupied since 1981 was given to her as a political favor. Further, that she has run against the rules that govern property […]
Yet another great way to shed some perspective on African geography: Accompanied by this: [Hat Tip.]
This week, the University of Cambridge’s Scott Polar Institute is hosting a NATO Advanced Research Workshop entitled “Environmental Security in the Arctic Ocean.” During the workshop, delegates from the NATO countries and Russia, among a number of other participants, will meet to discuss challenges in the Arctic. Policymakers, academics, and non-profit representatives will be in […]
South Sudan is embarking on a referendum on whether to stay a part of Sudan or declare independence from the Khartoum government. The big event is scheduled to take place on the 9th of January 2011. President Omar –Al Bashir says he “will not accept an alternative to unity”. The south and through various spokesmen […]
It should be no surprise that some Islam advocacy organizations in the United States have more critical views of Israel than, say, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. Today the Anti-Defamation League — an organization that fights bigotry and often focuses on anti-Semitism — released a list of the top ten anti-Israel groups in the […]