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Wednesday, March 4, 2015 - 07:22
About 100 tonnes of gunpowder, almost three million detonators and some 3,000 cannon shells were found on board the Da Dan Xia, Colombian media reported that the ship was also carrying pipes used in mining and had stopped in Cartagena to unload them. According to the reports, counter-narcotics police searched it after they had received a tip-off about the munitions on board. The ship was due to make another stop in the Colombian port of Barranquilla before sailing on to Cuba, its itinerary suggested.
Wednesday, March 4, 2015 - 07:21
Rights activists in Uganda have been voicing concern over police brutality towards journalists. Some detect a policy of coercing media outlets into reporting favorably on the government ahead of the 2016 elections.
Wednesday, March 4, 2015 - 07:15
The U.S. government, under the cover of the Authorized Use of Military Force (AUMF since Sept 14, 2001) in the last five years has managed to kill two TTP emirs (Baitullah Mehsud in 2009 and Hakeemullah Mehsud in 2013). Pakistani and Afghan forces have captured Faqir Mohammad and Latif Mehsud. The vacuum thus created is being filled by a younger, more brutal and ruthless generation of jihadis. They are more lethal as they are equipped with newer approaches for planning and executing terrorist attacks.
Wednesday, March 4, 2015 - 07:08
This is no longer an American war, regardless of how many United States Special Operations forces continue to sweep the mountains for insurgents or how many American warplanes fire missiles into remote desert camps. That war, by most accounts, has been lost. In the face of endless violence, the Taliban have not been killed off. The nation is not pacified, the political future remains deeply uncertain and the death toll has never been higher. For the central government in Kabul, the real fight is to persuade the population, not to kill insurgents. And the police, local and national, are the only ones who can win it.
Wednesday, March 4, 2015 - 07:01
Radical organizations like the Islamic State (IS) group have started to penetrate into southern Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan's Andijon region in the east of the Ferghana valley, Kyrgyzstan's State Committee for National Security (GKNB) has claimed. GKNB spokesman Rakhat Suleimanov said that the domestic intelligence agency had arrested a large number of individuals earlier this year who were suspected of involvement in terrorist activities.
Wednesday, March 4, 2015 - 06:57
While U.S. laws explicitly prohibit the delivery of aid to foreign individuals and units implicated in systematic human rights violations, internal reporting on the implementation of Mérida programs reveals that institutional connections to organized crime are consistently overlooked, ignored or kept hidden from public scrutiny as counter-drug money continues to flow.
Wednesday, March 4, 2015 - 06:54
Kazakhstan has reached an agreement with Russia to take over most of a Russian military training facility in far western Kazakhstan. The deal represents the latest step in Kazakhstan's efforts to regain control over the many Soviet-legacy military and other strategic facilities that Russia still operates in the country.
Wednesday, March 4, 2015 - 06:47
In partnership with the Uganda Peoples Defense Forces (UPDF), US Army Africa is conducting Eastern Accord 15 (EA 15), in the Jinja district of eastern Uganda.
Tuesday, March 3, 2015 - 07:44
Kyrgyz officials concerned by drug abuse are continuing their efforts to wipe out the scourge. The government has set up a State Co-ordinating Committee on Drug Control and has approved a plan of action to implement the [national] Anti-drug Programme.
Tuesday, March 3, 2015 - 07:39
The massive influx of Chinese immigrants and investment in Africa pose significant obstacles to U.S. development and counterterrorism efforts in the region. Chinese endeavors exacerbate existing tensions over scarce natural resources, buttress corrupt regimes, and further entrench the status quo that has proven a fertile breeding ground for Islamist extremism.