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Friday, April 24, 2015 - 07:00
Early this month, Muhammadu Buhari was elected Nigeria’s new president on the twin promise of increasing security and lowering corruption. With the world focused on countering terrorism, Buhari now has to show that he can also deliver quickly on rooting out political corruption.
Friday, April 24, 2015 - 06:56
The United States has signed an agreement with Rwandan Ministry of Internal Security for partnership on training of police peacekeepers.
Friday, April 24, 2015 - 06:49
Any move by Burundi's president to run for a third five year term risks undermining a peace deal that has kept the African nation calm since civil war ended a decade ago and could stoke tensions in a region blighted by ethnic conflict.
Friday, April 24, 2015 - 06:39
The Defense Department can’t account for $1.3 billion that was shipped to force commanders in Afghanistan from 2004 to 2014 for critical reconstruction projects, 60 percent of all such spending under an emergency program, an internal report released Thursday concludes.
Friday, April 24, 2015 - 06:35
The Obama administration said Thursday that two American Qaeda operatives killed in Pakistan in January had not been “specifically targeted,” and officials added that the Central Intelligence Agency had no idea the two men were hiding in compounds under surveillance by armed drones when orders were given to carry out the strikes.
Thursday, April 23, 2015 - 07:27
A court in Azerbaijan on April 22, 2015, sentenced Intigam Aliyev, Azerbaijan’s leading human rights lawyer, to seven years and six months in prison on bogus charges, Human Rights Watch said today. The authorities should immediately release Aliyev, 52, and vacate his politically motivated conviction.
Thursday, April 23, 2015 - 07:16
As increased fighting on the ground in eastern Ukraine threatens the already fragile ceasefire, members of the U.S. Congress once again are pressing President Barack Obama to request lethal military aid for Ukraine to combat Russian-backed rebels. The president already has ignored a resolution urging lethal U.S. aid for Ukraine that the House passed by 348 to 48 votes.
Thursday, April 23, 2015 - 07:14
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization agreed to establish a liaison office in Djibouti to boost anti-piracy efforts off the Horn of Africa, the 28-nation bloc said. An “office will facilitate greater operational, logistical and administrative coordination.”
Thursday, April 23, 2015 - 07:12
Violence in the Darfur region of Sudan’s far west continues unabated. Some 450,000 persons were displaced in 2014 and another 100,000 in January 2015 alone, adding to some two million long-term internally displaced persons (IDPs) since fighting erupted in 2003. The government remains wedded to a military approach and reluctant to pursue a negotiated national solution that would address all Sudan’s conflicts at once and put the country on the path of a democratic transition.
Thursday, April 23, 2015 - 07:09
A report by Amnesty International and Global Witness has alleged that nearly 80% of US firms are failing to adequately check their supply chains for conflict minerals.