On October 16, The Committee of 100 and George Mason University sponsored a debate between advisors to the McCain and Obama campaigns on the topic of: A Framework for U.S. Policy toward China: Positions of the Presidential Candidates at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. Moderator: Kathy Chen, Editor and Assistant Washington Bureau Chief of […]
It appears that South Africa's parliament is set to dissolve the Scorpions, the high-profile independent police organization that has been the source of so much controversy since its inception. The Scorpions have been behind many of the investigations into Jacob Zuma's various alleged indiscretions, so the timing of the decision should come as a surprise […]
The release of the Waki Report in Kenya, which laid responsibility for post-election violence at the end of last year on a host of individuals and institutions, including the police, is fueling serious recriminations and resistance from some of the country's police agencies. Time and again in Africa it has been shown that police and […]
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) estimates that economic growth will slow and will be outpaced by inflation over the next year. There have been some tentative signs of political stabilization across the continent. Let's hope that economic instability does not fuel its political counterpart.
Continuing yesterday's thread, I would like to highlight one major aspect of progress in Afghanistan; the role of women in the workplace and in society as a whole. To do this I will showcase the stories of a few particular women, and unfortunately in their stories there is great suffering and too visible of signs […]
A suspected US air strike killed nine people at a religious school in north-west Pakistan, intelligence officials said today. It was claimed the school, on the outskirts of Miran Shah, the main town in the North Waziristan region, had links to the Taliban. Four of those killed in the attack were found in the rubble […]
Pakistan plans to arm tens of thousands of anti-Taliban tribal fighters in its western border region in hopes — shared by the U.S. military — that the nascent militias can replicate the tribal “Awakening” movement that proved decisive in the battle against al-Qaeda in Iraq. The militias, called lashkars, will receive Chinese-made AK-47 assault rifles […]
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) ‚ Pakistan sought help from the International Monetary Fund on Wednesday to avoid defaulting on billions of dollars in loans and to skirt a financial crisis brought on by high fuel prices, dwindling foreign investment and soaring militant violence. Pakistani officials had previously said that turning to the I.M.F. would be a […]
IBM is opening the region's first nanotechnology center in Egypt, and some private companies are working to introduce nanotechnology to Egypt's youth.
With Russian and American top brass talking again, it looks like the two countries have kissed and made up following the whole Georgia thing. Or, if you’re US ambassador Beylre, kissed and made out: not only did he recently deny any US intention to punish Russia, but also put a nice gloss on the […]
This is a telling quotation from (this string of citations is long) an op-ed from the Egyptian paper Al-Ahram via a translation in the United Arab Emirates paper The National via the blog Negev Rock City via Andrew Sullivan: "Marrying a pirate is every Somali girl's dream. He has power, money, immunity, the weapons to defend the tribe […]
I met Minister Tarek Mitri a while ago. You can read the interview on WSN. “…. and you have the fact that you need the good offices, in times of crises, of some third party. However, this is only one part of the answer. The other is that Lebanon's conflict and tensions have more than […]
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