A few days ago I did all of my article post but I posted them on to the wrong Region.So that’s why Grant and I have the same article (I added another to make up for it) but I did want to take the time to reflect on Gambia’s presidential election. Its been an strong American tradition since the founding… Read more »
As Iraqi forces continue their military operation to take Mosul from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS), another equally important battle to save the Mosul Dam, located 60km north of Mosul, is under way. After six months of frantic security and logistical preparations, an Italian company has kicked off the repair works to… Read more »
WASHINGTON/ALEPPO: US Secretary of State John Kerry accused the Syrian regime of Bashar Assad of carrying out “nothing short of a massacre” in Aleppo, where thousands were evacuated on Thursday from the last opposition bastion in a city besieged for years. Kerry, speaking at a news briefing, said the United States was seeking an immediate, verifiable, and durable cessation of… Read more »
MOTORCADES are not an unusual feature of African political life. But a hush fell in Serekunda, Gambia’s largest town, as the presidents of Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone sped by in black Rolls-Royces. Gambians hoped the region’s other heads of state would persuade their own erratic president to step down. Yahya Jammeh, who has ruled the tiny West African… Read more »
CAIRO — Egypt faced the prospect of a surge in sectarian bloodshed on Tuesday after the Islamic State claimed responsibility for the bombing of a Coptic cathedral in Cairo that killed 25 people on Sunday. The group warned of more attacks to come. As Christians gathered in churches to pay their respects to the victims, most of them women, the… Read more »
(Quartz) Over the past decade, development organizations have been working on improving the productivity of African farms to deal with food insecurity as the continent’s population booms. By closing the gap between what farms actually produce and what they could produce, Africa would have enough food to both feed itself and become a new breadbasket for the world.
France 24) Gambia’s leader of some 22 years Yahya Jammeh announced late Friday he would no longer accept defeat in recent elections, plunging the West African country into turmoil with a demand for fresh polls. Investigations into the December 1 vote have revealed a string of “unacceptable errors” on the part of electoral authorities, Jammeh said in a speech broadcast… Read more »
(France 24) Two female suicide bombers on Friday killed 45 people and wounded 33 others when they detonated their explosives in a crowded market in Nigeria’s restive northeast, the emergency service said The army had earlier put the death toll at 30. “From our updated records we have 45 dead and 33 injured in the twin suicide bomb explosions in… Read more »
(Reuters) A Kenyan court on Wednesday ordered two Iranian nationals facing charges of filming Israel’s embassy in Nairobi for the purpose of terrorism to be deported back to Iran, a public prosecutor said. Sayed Nasrollah Ebrahimi and Abdolhosein Ghola Safafe were arrested on Nov. 29 while in a car belonging to the Iranian embassy, according to court documents. Iranian foreign… Read more »
(Al Jazeera) Rights commission urges international community to take immediate action in South Sudan to avoid “all-out ethnic war”. South Sudan is “on the brink of an all-out ethnic civil war which could destabilise the entire region”, the head of a team of UN human rights investigators told the UN Human Rights Council, describing a shattered country where children as… Read more »