The Following piece is written by a Yemeni-based journalist who writes for Foreign Policy Association (FPA) and, due to serious security concerns, remains anonymous. According to almasdaonline.com, which is a Yemeni based Arabic news website, the President is believed to be planning a massive military operation within the walls of the capital. The embattled President is […]
The African Union Commission Chairman, Jean Ping, yesterday told an audience in Washington that the International Criminal Court continues to target African leaders unfairly, accusing the body of “double standards” as it seeks to try those accused of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide — most recently in Sudan and Kenya. Noting that atrocities […]
Bringing war and conflict back to those watching in far away homes and offices is vital task. It is also a very dangerous one, and the deaths of Restrepo (my review) co-director Tim Hetherington and his fellow journalist Chris Hondros in Libya yesterday show why. The work of these brave men brought a distant conflict […]
Of the 68 people rescued in the northern state of Tamaulipas on Wednesday, 12 are migrants from Central America. According to their accounts, gunmen identifying themselves with the Gulf Cartel seized the group off an autobus. Tamaulipas has been in the news because of the grizzly mass murder of 72 migrants in San Fernando last […]
South Korea has an icebreaker and a polar research program with a station at Ny-Alesund. It has applied for observer status in the Arctic Council. Soon, it may also build a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in the Northwest Territories. This past January, executives from the Korean Gas Corp. (KOGAS) visited Inuvik, NWT to consider […]
Japan plans to beef up its strategy of “economic diplomacy” to recover from the destruction caused by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. The economy was further damaged by the ongoing crisis at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, which has resulted in rolling blackouts in Tokyo, and hurt consumer confidence. In today’s post, I […]
A Screaming Man is a film set in Chad and written and directed by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, was born in Chad in 1960, the year the country became independent from France. He left Chad two decades later after a succession of civil wars and other strife had torn the country asunder. The film has been well […]
African Union Chairman Jean Ping will address the U.S. Institute of Peace today following meetings with top officials in Washington. The address, which is expected to touch on hot button issues like the interventions in Libya and Ivory Coast, elections in Nigeria and U.S.-Africa relations, will be webcast live beginning at 2:00 pm EST. For […]
As expected, interim President Goodluck Jonathan of the ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has won the presidency in his own right in Nigeria’s elections. The results were not especially close, certainly not enough to cast the results in serious doubt and despite the inevitable claims of vote rigging, corruption, and general malfeasance by the opposition, […]
The Japanese government is considering raising the consumption tax from 5 percent to 8 percent to pay for reconstruction from the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. The government estimated the damage caused by the disaster could amount to 25 trillion yen (more than $300 billion). The Democratic Party of Japan is in favor of raising […]
Young women beside a fountain in a park, Tajikistan, July 2009. © Amnesty International I am a huge fan of the BBC World Service and have been following their Extreme World series of programs – a collection of TV, radio and online coverage that examines the extremes of our planet from education and corruption to attitudes […]
I urge all our Afghanistan readers to check out Sean Patrick Murphy’s review of the film ‘Talibanistan’ over at his FPA Global Film Review blog. I have not seen the film, but from Murphy’s description it sounds worthwhile. Here is his intro: Hearts and minds. That’s what narrator Peter Coyote says coalition forces in Afghanistan […]
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