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Thursday, January 28, 2016 - 07:33
Administration officials acknowledged that sticking to the plan to leave Afghanistan the way it left Iraq in 2011 would be disastrous for U.S. interests.
Thursday, January 28, 2016 - 07:10
The environment for human rights in Turkey worsened in 2015, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2016. Human rights violations increased following the breakdown of the Kurdish peace process, a sharp escalation of violence in the southeast, and a crackdown on media and political opponents of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP).
Thursday, January 28, 2016 - 06:59
Lebanese authorities’ policies toward Syrian refugees and the impunity for security forces are harming Lebanon’s human rights record, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2016.
Thursday, January 28, 2016 - 06:52
Recent airstrikes on cash depots in ISIS-land incinerated more than half-a-billion dollars. The oil operations are being hit—and the willingness to risk civilian casualties is growing.
Thursday, January 28, 2016 - 06:46
Much of the quagmire in Libya, and the proliferation of IS there, is attributable to Nato’s intervention in Libya in 2011, which was presented as a humanitarian intervention in light of the atrocities of the Libyan civil war.
Thursday, January 28, 2016 - 06:24
U.S.-led coalition forces training Iraqi soldiers to fight Islamic State are applying lessons from last month's recapture of Ramadi to prepare the army to retake the northern city of Mosul later this year.
Thursday, January 28, 2016 - 05:58
The official news agency SUNA reported that the Bashir has issued a presidential decree ordering to open the border with the South Sudan and "directed the concerned authorities to take all the necessary measures for the implementation of this decision on the ground".
Thursday, January 28, 2016 - 05:56
Challenges to President Pierre Nkurunziza’s rule are becoming professionalised, as demonstrated by the attacks on two military camps in Bujumbura last December. Godfroid Nyombare – Nkurunziza’s former chief of secret service and main plotter of the failed coup last May – has reportedly created an armed rebellion. And security forces have started using rape as a weapon of war, signalling their intent to break Bujumbura’s quartiers contestataires psychologically as well as physically.
Thursday, January 28, 2016 - 05:53
Transparency International has ranked Botswana as the least corrupt county in sub-Saharan Africa. Botswana emerged tops with a score of 63 in this year’s global Corruption Perception Index released by Transparency International Wednesday. It was followed by Cape Verde (57) and Seychelles (55).
Rwanda was the top performer among the East Africa Community (EAC) countries, with a score of 49 at position 55 globally. Its score has, however, dropped from 53 in 2013.
Thursday, January 28, 2016 - 05:50
On Thursday, Mr. Gbagbo, the former president of Ivory Coast, will go on trial at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, facing four counts of crimes against humanity stemming from the violence surrounding the 2010 presidential election. He was narrowly defeated in a runoff, but he insisted that he had won and refused to cede power, leading to months of turmoil and the deaths of more than 3,000 people before his arrest in April 2011.