As a general rule I would have argued that Africa’s best art and film festival takes place in Grahamstown, South Africa each July. GlobalPost makes the case that Africa’s best film festival takes place in Ouagadougou, in Burkina Faso, calling it Africa’s Cannes.
LAHORE, Pakistan, March 13 — On one side of the provincial high court complex, a majestic red-brick monument to British colonial rule, it was business as usual Friday morning. Lawyers in black robes and white bibs rushed to hearings and conferred with clients, while clerks filled out legal petitions between sips of tea. On the […]
Today’s New York Times featured two contrasting views of how the US should fight the Afghan insurgency and prevent international terrorism from breeding in the region. Leslie Gelb, President Emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations, while asserting that defeating the Taliban threat is ‘not achievable’, argues for a steady military drawback from the conflict, […]
Democracy activist Mustafa Barghouti released his latest op-ed delineating multiple ways that the United States can advocate peace between Israel and the Palestinians. I agree with some of his points and staunchly disagree with others. You be the judge.
Dissident troops have moved into Madagascar’s capital city, Antananarivo. Given the role that the military is beginning to play in the country’s crisis, the emergence of an oppositional force within the military seems to me to spell potential disaster. At the heart of the current crisis is the ongoing power struggle between President Marc Ravalomanana […]
Israel’s lead negotiatior with Hamas over the prisoner swap deal, Ofer Dekel, returned to Israel and may have secured the basis for a deal for the release of abducted IDF soldier Gilad Shalit in exchange for 450 Hamas prisoners currently held in Israel. The sticking-point on the negotiations reamins whether to deport some of the […]
Prepared for new stimulus measures China is prepared to issue new stimulus measures if necessary, Premier Wen Jiabao said on a press conference. Apart from the RMB 4 trillion stimulus package and additional tax cuts of as much as RMB 600 billion, China has prepared plans to cope with more economic difficulties. Mr. Wen repeated […]
WASHINGTON: The United States seems eager not to criticise the Zardari government for its crackdown on opposition activists, although it also wants to appear neutral in the Zardari-Sharif imbroglio. On the judicial dispute, the United States still seems unwilling to support the demand for the restoration of judges despite a change of government in […]
Reporting from Islamabad, Pakistan — Police overwhelmed anti-government protesters Thursday in Karachi, Pakistan’s largest city, arresting opposition leaders and preventing several hundred lawyers and activists from leaving for a planned demonstration in Islamabad. The government of President Asif Ali Zardari contends that public gatherings could serve as a focal point for terrorists and otherwise endanger […]
ISLAMABAD – With each image of police dragging demonstrators into vans, and each announcement of protest rallies banned, more and more Pakistanis are saying the same thing: We’ve seen this before. The fledgling civilian government’s crackdown on opposition parties and activist lawyers behind calls for a mass protest march on the capital is hitting many […]
Britain and the US are trying to broker a compromise between Pakistan’s two major political parties as confrontation threatens to push the country towards collapse. For the past two days British and American officials have been involved in intense mediation between President Asif Ali Zardari’s government and opposition leader Nawaz Sharif. London and Washington are […]
LAHORE, Pakistan, March 12 — Police wielding long batons dragged anti-government demonstrators into black vans Thursday at a highway toll plaza outside the southern city of Karachi, where several thousand people were attempting to join a caravan heading for the capital, Islamabad, for a mass protest this weekend. In a second day and night of […]
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