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The Dragon Arrives: 1st Chinese overseas Military Base in Djibouti

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - China has just inaugurated its first military base abroad, in the tiny Red Sea country of Djibouti. Beijing has a long way to…

S. Africa ruling party will downgrade ties with Israel over Illegal Occupation

Ma'an News Agency | - - PRETORIA (Ma'an) -- The African National Congress (ANC), the ruling party of South Africa, voted on Tuesday in favor of downgrading South Africa’s diplomatic representation in…

Is the European Refugee Crisis being Driven by Drought and Climate Change?

By Baher Kamal | (Inter Press Service) | - - ROME (IPS) - Water–everybody talks about it, warns against its growing scarcity, excessive waste, the impact of climate change, the frequent severe…

20 Million People Could ‘Starve to Death’ in Next Six Months

By Baher Kamal | (Inter Press Service) | - - ROME (IPS) - Urgent action is needed to save the lives of people facing famine in North Eastern Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan…

The Coming Muslim Century: Bad news for President Bannon

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Demographically, the 21st century will be the Muslim Century, as the Pew Research Center on Religion in Public Life has shown. Muslims will…

Does Trump’s slashed Foreign Aid Budget give China the Advantage?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The US foreign aid budget is not mainly about helping the poor. It is an instrument for buying influence in countries important to…

Africa Trade Summit in US Had Zero Africans After Visas Denied

TeleSur | - - "This year it was 100 percent. Every delegation,” organizer Mary Flowers told the media. An African trade summit organized by the University of Southern California ended up with…

As Trump Bans Somalis, 100s dying from Hunger in Severe Drought

The Watchers : Watching the World Evolve and Transform | - - 110 people have died from hunger in the past 48 hours in just one region of Somalia as severe drought…

In Shocker, Federal Judge in Seattle Halts Trump Muslim Ban

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - When Trump issued his executive order halting immigration from seven countries, suspending the refugee program, and banning Syrian refugees indefinitely, I wrote that…

Gambia’s ‘Trump’ and the dilemma of the Int’l Criminal Court

By Ebrahim Shabbir Deen | (Informed Comment) | - - The stepping down, under duress, of long-term Gambian president Yahya Jammeh clearly illustrates the impact of credible collective security. However, for this…

When Reagan backed S. Africa Racism and Castro inspired Mandela

TeleSur | - - The world remembers Nelson Mandela as the freedom fighter and president who liberated South Africa from apartheid. But many look back with a selected memory of how the…

People don’t join Terrorist Groups b/c of Religion: Are Recruited by Family & Friends

Family & Friends, not Religion, Draw People into Terrorist Groups

By Rose Delaney | (Inter Press Service) | - - LONDON (IPS) - A recent study supported by the government of Finland has found widespread misconceptions regarding what drives people to join…

George Clooney Report Ruffles Feathers in South Sudan

TeleSur | - - The report "can only jeopardize the pursuit of peace and stability," South Sudan representatives said. A new report claiming that South Sudan’s leaders have exploited the country’s ongoing…

The Russian Challenge to U.S. Policy in Africa

Gregory Alonso Pirio and Robert Pittelli | Informed Comment | - - The United States and its Western allies, for the most part, consider the Cold War long over, and with the…

Climate Change Terror as Deserts Bury 2/3s of African Lands

By Baher Kamal | (Inter Press Service) | - - ROME, (IPS) - Two-thirds of the African continent is already desert or dry-lands. But while this vast extension of the second largest…

The Economic Crisis of Greying World: 30 Countries have more Elderly than Children

By Joseph Chamie | (Inter Press Service) | - - NEW YORK (IPS) - It first happened in Italy in 1995. Five years later it happened in six additional countries, Bulgaria, Germany,…

Nile Valley Water Conflict: Can Egypt live with Ethiopia’s Grand Renaissance Dam?

By Dale Whittington | (The Conversation) | - - The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, or GERD, under construction on the Blue Nile near the Ethiopian-Sudanese border, is now approximately 50% complete. Initial…

In an Age of Global Terror, do Failed States endanger you, too?

By Joseph Chamie and Barry Mirkin | (Inter Press Service) | - - NEW YORK, Apr 9 2016 (IPS) - Regardless of whether they are called fragile, failed, or failing states, scores…

Why did Nigerian Military attack Muslim Protest Movement when violent Boko Haram is Still at Large?

By Allan Christelow | (Informed Comment) | - - On December 12-13, 2015 Nigerian security forces carried out an attack against the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) in the city of Zaria.…