Adam looks at Brazil's aprubtly canceled state visit to Washington amid NSA spying revelations; Vice-President Biden's visit to Mexico City; and mild controversy over a new Millennium Challenge grant to El Salvador.
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The following is a round-up of some of the top articles and news highlights from around the region over the past week.
Release of new Just the Facts report!
- We released our new report, “Time to Listen: Trends in US Military Assistance to Latin America and the Caribbean.” It is available in both English ( ...
- Nigerian newspaper The Leadership reported that President Goodluck Jonathan will meet President Obama on September 24th, when both are in New York for the UN General Assembly, to discuss Nigeria’s security situation. Council on Foreign Relations’ John Campbell pointed to an upsurge of violence in Nigeria since the state of emergency in May. This week, the conflict between the Nigerian ...
Below is a roundup of some of the top articles and news highlights from around the MENA region over the last week:
Syria:
- The United States and Russia agreed to a deal on Saturday through which Syria would destroy its chemical weapons arsenal by mid 2014. The United Nations Security Council would enforce the deal, though disagreements ...
A round-up of some of the top articles and news highlights from around Central Eurasia over the last week:
Central Asia:
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Kyrgyzstan President Almazbek Atambayev visited NATO headquarters in Brussels, where he met with Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen and discussed deepening cooperation. Rasmussen highlighted the possibility of increased cooperation on training
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In yet another sign of the Pentagon’s increasing presence in Africa, Defence Web reported this week that the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) recently announced it seeks contractors to provide “transportation services of intra-theatre cargo within the Africom Area of Responsibility (AOR) and Egypt.” Showing a certain sense of urgency, AFRICOM gave a deadline of just ...