Suicide Blast in Somalia Raising Concerns at Home
Following a devastating suicide blast earlier in the week in Somalia’s capital city of Mogadishu, leaders from the regional terror group al Shabaab issued a… Read More
Tunisian Elections Dominated by the Islamist Al-Nahda Party
The Al-Nahda (“Renaissance”) Party, a long-banned Islamist movement that was legalized after the ouster of Tunisia’s autocratic President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali in January, is… Read More
Russia’s African Expansion Boosted by New BRICS Stock Market
Russia is bemoaning the passing of Libyan dictator Muammar Qadhafi, an old friend and client of the Soviet Union and a reliable customer for Russian… Read More
Lessons of Libya
That indigenous forces backed by Western military power could overthrow an odious unpopular regime backed by a second-rate military ought to come as no surprise…. Read More
Tunisia’s Hizb Al-Nahda: A Nightmare for Some and a Blessing for Others
Next month, Tunisians will go to the polls for the first time since former president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali fled the country last January…. Read More
Qadhafi’s Friends in Africa: A Challenge for the TNC
While the Libyan rebels continue their search for deposed dictator Muammar Qadhafi, rumors abound as to where the former despot could be hiding. Some believe… Read More
Obama’s Top Ten Errors on Libya
When in November 1942 the British Army broke and routed Rommel, and sent him fleeing through Libya, Winston Churchill recognized that it was not the… Read More
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Boko Haram Broadens Attacks, Strikes U.N. Headquarters
On Friday, a suicide bomber launched an attack against the U.N. headquarters in Nigeria’s capital city of Abuja. The Islamist sect Boko Haram (translated: “education… Read More
Morning Bell: The Right Strategy to Fight Terrorism
In what has been described as an “act of international terrorism,” news agencies report that a suicide car bomb struck the United Nations building in Abuja, Nigeria’s… Read More
Social Entrepreneurship: Businesses that Help the Poor
Foreign aid as a development tool has been tried and found wanting. Decades of handouts from developed countries to developing countries have done little more… Read More
