Real estate statesmanship
Just when you thought that joint Moroccan and Libyan backing for military juntas in West Africa had gone out of vogue, after Mauritania quieted down, enter Guinea-Conakry. Cpt. Moussa Dadis Camara, who...
View ArticleThe edges of Arabia
A giant baobab tree in the Sahel from Flickr user Osvaldo Zoom We don’t often cover issues from the Sahel here — that strip of land on the edge of Arabo-Berber North Africa — so here are a few links to...
View ArticleGuinea junta leader plans return: diplomat
Guinea’s junta leader Camara, hospitalised in Morocco after aide shot him in head, plans return. Go to Source
View ArticleIsrael’s dirty hands in Africa
“To consolidate his influence in Guinea, Steinmetz took former prime minister Ehud Olmert with him during one of his visits to the capital Conakry, where they met with Camara. Against that background,...
View ArticleRoberts: Death Rates don’t Actually Decline During Wars
Leslie F. Roberts writes in a guest op-ed for Informed Comment An astonishing version of the Human Security Report was released this past week. It was astonishing for its primary headline: “NEW REPORT...
View ArticleForeign Affairs in Obama’s State of the Union: Caught between the Utopian and...
Understandably, President Obama concentrated on domestic issues, especially job creation, in his State of the Union address. But there were a few paragraphs toward the end about foreign affairs that I...
View ArticleWorld’s Richest Heads of State
Via The Gulf Blog, a list of the world’s richest heads of state, derived from this article at The Independent, we find some surprises. No, no Arab monarch tops the list. The King of Thailand is, to my...
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