April 2, 2020
…of Yemen. Conflicts throughout Africa — in Cameroon, Chad, Nigeria, Mozambique, Mali — also continue despite pleas for a truce. Neither has al-Shabaab stopped its suicide bombings nor the United…
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February 29, 2020
…Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, and elsewhere across the Greater Middle East and Africa? Yet that divorce has come at a considerable cost. It’s left our society in a state of low-grade…
March 8, 2020
…which, from West Africa to Central Asia, Trump is expanding and deepening the War on Terror — and making it deadlier. Far from ending the wars, U.S. airstrikes in Somalia…
March 13, 2020
…while Russian state authorities rewrote the region’s history and maps. Israeli airstrikes mercilessly pummeled Gaza. And Ebola was quite literally hemorrhaging West Africa. I watched all of these crises unfold…
March 22, 2020
…spread. As the epicenter of the crisis moves to Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa, a region beset by socio-political turmoil is not far behind. The last decade has…
March 31, 2020
…organizations is simply not an option for the Moroccan leadership given how much influence political Islam exerts in the North African country. Meanwhile, the UAE is attempting to eradicate the…
March 31, 2020
…to land from Africa, where the presence of the virus was confirmed, is irresponsible.” At the time, there was only one reported case on the whole continent, in Egypt. In…
April 16, 2020
…non-state actors are already the main decision makers. According to the United Nations Development Programme, more than 60 percent of the citizens in the Middle East and North Africa region…
February 23, 2020
…stretched west from Haiti across the oceans to China, whereas today’s generals mostly lead missions from West Africa east to Central Asia, but both sets of conflicts seemed perpetual in…
April 23, 2020
…with 38 cases. Egypt leads in North Africa with over 2,800 cases followed by Morocco and Algeria with over 2,500 each, and Tunisia with nearly 900 cases. These numbers, excluding…
April 25, 2020
…Union as well, any failure by Algeria to meet this challenge could have serious security implications for North Africa and the Sahel. But given the troubles the EU faced following…
April 27, 2020
…did Europeans in Australia or South Africa. So, is this now a conflict of two nations or a civil war? Khalidi offers no definite conclusion on whether a two-state solution…
May 1, 2020
…Myanmar. The violations of Boko Haram in West Africa. “Never again” we say. Again and again we see. Rwanda remains the prototypical case study. After Hutu extremists began massacring members…
May 3, 2020
…stronger from the crisis? What will have changed? Africa too receives attention, for its size and demography, as well as for being the place where much of this competition is…
May 6, 2020
…the former Soviet Union, he has also revived Moscow’s great power role not just in the Middle East, but even in Africa and Latin America, which it had lost at…
May 13, 2020
…establishment of the Africa Center for Disease Control (CDC). Those deeply familiar with bottlenecks in the developing world, moreover, know that Chinese infrastructure is making a definite contribution to decreasing…
February 25, 2020
…members — the Dominican Republic, Indonesia, Niger, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, South Africa, Tunisia, and Vietnam — it would be surprising if they could not persuade at least two…
February 10, 2020
…authors would recommend reducing the army’s budget, including reducing the army’s presence in Africa and Latin America and ending its deployments in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria? Although the report professes…
May 16, 2020
…Hugh Lovatt, a policy fellow with the Middle East and North Africa programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations, wrote “West Bank annexation will bring an end to the…
January 14, 2020
…Muslim world, from West Africa to Central Asia. Driven by its own regional political calculations, Iran also helped fight the so-called Islamic State in both Iraq and Syria. However, it…
December 3, 2019
…and despite all the talk about where Trump stands, that is a pretty safe bet. Further, Macron wants the Alliance to take up some of French security burdens in Africa,…