The Growing Regionalism of Harakat al-Shabaab
March 8, 2011 3 min. read

It was announced today that between 9 and 11 Kenyan’s who have conducted attacks in Kenya have had training within Somalia, a disquieting thought as Harakat al-Shabaab has announced the possibility of more focussed attacks on Kenyan soil in the near future.  In the meanwhile, Mustapha Ali, advisor to the UN has warned that the spillover […]

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The electoral disorder of 2010
December 31, 2010 5 min. read

Among other things, 2010 marked a number of national elections gone wrong. From Guinea to Haiti, Rwanda to the Philippines, Madagascar, Burundi and Belarus to name just a few, elections that were fair, free, non-violent and undisputed have been difficult to find this past year. Even elections in the US and UK took on more […]

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Profit and Blood
October 14, 2009 3 min. read

Mined tin ore from the Eastern DRC Advocates against illegal mining and resource-fuelled conflict gained another small victory with a leading trader of tin on the London Metal Exchange announcing that it is suspending all purchases of tin ore from the Democratic Republic of the Congo until a certification scheme can be put in place […]

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T. Boone Pickens is half right on energy security
May 4, 2009 2 min. read

On Friday, T Boone Pickens entitled an article “Swimming in Natural Gas” playing off a similar quote from the Wall Street Journal. (It is also sounds similar to, er, my coulumn I wrote last month that the world is swimming in oil as stocks had increased driving down the price of oil.) In his piece, […]

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