The New York Times
Monday, April 21, 2014 - 10:10
The mayhem tearing apart the Central African Republic is the product of political mischief, not religious differences, and won’t precipitate a regional religious war. But Muslims militants in Nigeria pose a more serious problem to the region.
Monday, April 21, 2014 - 10:05
Sectarian violence is spreading ominously across Africa. The only good news is that so far the conflicts appear to be national rather than regional.
Monday, April 21, 2014 - 10:01
I don’t see a regional religious war. While different groups might cross borders, each is fundamentally responding to a set of local issues. These have less to do with religion than with decades of human rights abuse, impunity for crimes by the security forces and the groups themselves, rampant corruption, underdevelopment, and unresolved conflicts over land in a changing climate.
Monday, April 21, 2014 - 09:07
Fardos Osman sat on the concrete floor of a crammed room in a sprawling stadium next to scores of other women, many hiding their faces. She said she had been at the stadium for four days. Her refugee document had expired, she said, and she feared that she would be sent back to war-torn Somalia.
Monday, April 21, 2014 - 08:49
Military forces on Wednesday freed most of the teenage girls who had been abducted the previous day by Islamist militants, a spokesman for the armed forces said in a statement.
Monday, April 21, 2014 - 08:46
The diplomat who was president of the United Nations Security Council in April 1994 apologized on Wednesday for the Council’s failure to do anything to halt the slaughter of more than one million people during the Rwandan genocide.
Monday, April 21, 2014 - 06:17
The minors coming from Central America and Mexico are “propelled by violence, insecurity and abuse,” the United Nations high commissioner for refugees said in a report issued the day after Noemi’s death.
Monday, April 21, 2014 - 06:14
The oil workers have been here more than a month but cannot leave, not even to go into the nearby town. It’s too dangerous
Monday, April 21, 2014 - 06:10
Will an American president be willing to examine this long history of resentment and distrust, the better to construct a “happy ending” to these conflicts with “the other America”?
Monday, April 21, 2014 - 06:04
“Had we had the resources it would have been different,” Mr. Medrano said. “It’s not expensive. No one should be dying from cholera”