The H1N1 virus doesn’t seem to be going away in Israel or in Palestinian controlled areas. The rate of infection in Israel has risen 3.6 percent in two weeks, infecting a total of 2,148 people in the entire country thus far. In order to combat the spread of the illness, the rabbinate is taking measures […]
Considering that in his last op-ed for the New York Times, Mr. Luttwak stated that the Muslim world will not accept Obama due to his “conversion to Christianity” (Muslim countries’ approval of U.S. leadership has increased under Obama’s presidency), it is no surprise that his op-ed published today in the Wall Street Journal on why […]
While many, including myself, have advocated getting rid of the term ‘AfPak’, the Foreign Policy website has decided to take it full boar…devoting a whole page to ‘The Af-Pak Channel: Inside the War for South Asia‘. Though I haven’t had a chance to dig deep into the site’s contents and intriciacies, one can quickly see […]
On Monday most presidents of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) met at a summit in Quito to discuss issues of regional interest. Notably, President Alvaro Uribe of Colombia was not in attendance due to his country’s strained relations with Ecuador. One topic not on the official agenda but raised during discussions was the […]
– The Thai courts refused a request to extradite Viktor Bout (aka The Merchant of Death) to the United States. Bout, an notorious global arms dealer, is accused by the U.S. of attempting to sell more than 700 surface-to-air missiles, a massive cache of automatic weapons, and airplanes and helicopters to the Revolutionary Armed Forces […]
Hillary Clinton moved on from the Democratic Republic of Congo and particularly her trip to Goma and is now in Nigeria where she is continuing the balancing act between proclaiming alliances and demanding accountability, with heavy emphasis on reducing graft. Clinton’s Goma trip, which actually was quite remarkable given the tendency of outsiders to swoop […]
This World Politics Review piece is less an article and more of an indictment of American policy toward Somalia, which most recently featured the mind-bogglingly bad decision to sell 40 tons of arms to a government that might not sustain itself long enough to jimmy open the boxes. Of course the article is long on […]
Most people, if they think of Madagascar at all, know it only as the backdrop for a bunch of cartoon critters from a zoo in New York City who, through a serious of hijinks, end up stranded on that African island nation. But Madagascar has more difficulties with governance than a monomaniacal (though generally harmless) […]
Kenya has formed a new anti-terrorism unit, the Ranger Strike Force, as part of major reforms in the military. According to Kenya’s The Nation newspaper (via allAfrica): Formed with the assistance of the United States Government, the new unit has been behind a number of security operations on the Kenya-Somalia border to prevent terrorist infiltration […]
Well, the recount of votes for seats on the Fatah Central Committee shook things up a bit. Notably, the recount pushed a prominent supporter of PA President Mahmoud Abbas, At-Tayyib Abdul Rahim, onto the panel, extending the elected part of the committee from 18 to 19 seats. Abdul Rahim previously said he would not seek […]
A comic book about African conflict and efforts at reconciliation? I was skeptical too. But Unknown Soldier seems worth a look. According to this story in The New York Times: Unknown Soldier, published by Vertigo, an imprint of DC Comics, is about Dr. Lwanga Moses, a Ugandan whose family fled the country for the United […]
The Israeli government did a U-turn on its policy involving negotiations with Syria, stating that Jerusalem would only agree to direct talks with Damascus instead of moderated talks through Turkish officials. Deputy Israeli Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon stated in an interview with Reuters that moderated talks were clearly failing and that only through direct negotiations could […]
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