March 31, 2021
…and North Africa (MENA) region, Africa, and Central Asia is beset by tensions that Erdoğan has struggled to manage or overcome. These tensions stem from Ankara’s efforts to keep its…
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April 24, 2021
…the company had connected its routes along what was officially called the Maritime Silk Road, linking regional markets in West Africa, Northern Europe, the Caribbean, and the U.S. to form…
September 16, 2020
…about an alleged Iranian plot to assassinate the U.S. ambassador to South Africa in retaliation for the Trump’s assassination of General Qassem Soleimani earlier this year. Politico broke the news…
May 17, 2021
…Swan and Zachary Basu, Trump did want to railroad his own military generals — by demanding they get all of their troops out of Afghanistan, as well as Germany, Africa,…
May 5, 2021
…March helped block a proposal led by India and South Africa to waive patents for Covid vaccines, treatments, and vital medical supplies in order to enable the production of affordable…
June 3, 2021
…for the Muslim Brotherhood across the region since the 2011 uprisings. It has polarised Arab politics, cast a long shadow over North Africa, for years split the Syrian opposition and…
April 15, 2020
…far as to compare European political systems with those of China. Such posts are then retweeted by Chinese embassies in Francophone Africa, amplifying the narrative. Through the Chinese Global Television…
July 12, 2021
…Tel Aviv could strengthen Morocco’s regional position in North Africa, particularly with regard to the political and strategic competition with Algeria. Before leaving office in January, the Trump Administration proposed selling as…
August 16, 2021
…training and military gear to invade ungoverned spaces or failed states Africa, South Asia, the Middle East, Latin America and the Caribbean Basin. The words, “all of us” suggest the…
August 11, 2021
…Africa Command, or AFRICOM. For the first six months of Biden’s term, the previously high pace of U.S. strikes in Somalia, as tracked by New America, seemed to have paused…
June 13, 2021
…fact expanded the U.S. military reach to North Africa during the Arab Spring in 2011, unilaterally enforcing with its NATO allies a “no fly zone” featuring attacks on Libyan defenses…
August 26, 2021
…became host to a wide range of official and nongovernmental democracy assistance organizations hailing from western democracies. The basing of US Agency for International Development’s North Africa Bureau in Tunis,…
May 14, 2020
…these talks paid dividends even before the agreement was signed. In 2014, Cuba sent the most physicians per capita to Obama’s Ebola containment efforts in West Africa. President Clinton achieved…
July 7, 2021
…soon major government-to-government and private sector transactions will indeed take place. Abraham Accords, the Gulf, and Africa Despite the political risks for any Arab state that normalizes relations with Israel,…
June 8, 2021
This article has been adapted from remarks delivered to the Institute for Peace and Diplomacy. The Middle East is where Africa, Asia, and Europe meet, where the three Abrahamic religions…
January 22, 2020
…an anti-apartheid struggle does not lend itself to such deceptions. South Africa has taught the world too well what apartheid looks like, as well as how the international community could…
February 17, 2020
…there). Meanwhile, of course, the war on terror that began in Afghanistan now stretches from the Philippines across the Greater Middle East and deep into the heart of Africa. Worse…
February 14, 2020
Q&A: Rep. Ilhan Omar explains her new ‘Pathway to Peace’ and how it’s an antidote to U.S. militarism
…South Africa. How will your proposal thread this needle? And how will you work to convince those who have supported counterproductive sanctions regimes to rethink how we apply these practices?…
September 9, 2021
…Taliban in Afghanistan, and al-Qaida’s survival and diversification across the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. Perhaps GWOT’s most dangerous consequence, in view of the six major structural troubles within Arab…
May 31, 2021
…make coordination difficult. Porous borders and transnational cultural ties have long facilitated the spread of people and goods between the Maghreb, Sahara, Sahel, and coastal West Africa. An envoy could…
August 10, 2021
…and western Africa, where temperatures are already close to the limits of human survivability for parts of the year, and where societies and agricultures are already facing severe and growing…