Below is a roundup of some of the top articles and news highlights from around Africa over the last week:
- Nelson Mandela, Nobel Peace Prize winner, anti-apartheid hero, and South Africa’s first black president passed away December 5th. His death stirred an outpouring of grief across Africa and the world. South Africa President Jacob Zuma said, “our ...
By: Lisa Haugaard, Latin America Working Group Education Fund
The November 24, 2013 elections in Honduras and their aftermath are a critical moment for the direction of the country. In June 2009 a coup overthrew the elected president, Liberal Party member Manuel Zelaya. In this month´s election, Zelaya´s wife Xiomara Castro de Zelaya under the new Libre party banner ran against the National Party´s Juan Orlando Hernandez, the traditional Liberal Party, a...
Below is a roundup of some of the top articles and news highlights from around the Middle East and North Africa over the last week:
United States Policy:
- In a call with Egyptian Defense Minister General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Saturday, U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel expressed concern over the recently passed protest law and the arrests of several political activists. The European Union’s chief diplomat, Catherine Ashton, also ...
A roundup of some of the top articles and news highlights from around Central Eurasia over the last week:
Top Stories from Central Asia and the South Caucasus:
- Georgian officials held meetings with senior United States and NATO officials on the sidelines of the NATO foreign ministers meeting this week. NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen stated that Georgia “moved much closer to NATO” and congratulated Georgia for its progress in implementing democratic and defense reforms. Following ...
The Open Society Justice Initiative and Muslims for Human Rights (MUHURI) released a new report titled, We’re Tired of Taking You to the Court: Human Rights Abuses by Kenya’s Anti-Terrorism Police Unit, on November 20th, 2013. The report argues that the Kenyan Anti-Terrorism Police Unit (...
On December 3rd and 4th, NATO held an alliance-wide foreign ministers meeting, which addressed the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) mission in Afghanistan and included a discussion with representatives from non-NATO ISAF participants.
NATO assumed leadership of the ISAF operation in 2003, and while the majority of ISAF soldiers come from NATO member states, non-NATO states such as Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia...