Category Archives: Europe
By Ambassador Donald Koran, opinion Today, around half the world’s population is at risk from malaria – a preventable and treatable disease that claims the life of a child every minute. Just ten years ago it was estimated that globally, … read more »
Posted in America, Asia, Australia, Europe, Ghana, Global Issues, Guinea, Middle East, Nigeria, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe
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Tagged Barack Obama, Disease, Health, HIV positive people, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Malaria, Rwanda, World Malaria Day
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By Winnie Ssanyu Sseruma Almost half the world’s population – an estimated three billion people – live in areas where malaria is transmitted. Endemic to 107 countries in the tropics and subtropics, it is responsible for around one million deaths … read more »
Posted in America, Article, Asia, Australia, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Europe, Global Issues, Health, Kenya, Middle East, Niger, Nigeria, Op-ed, Somali, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Zambia, Zimbabwe
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Tagged Disease, HIV, HIV positive people, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Malaria, Mosquito net, sub-Saharan Africa, UNICEF
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Stripping those born here of their citizenship by arbitrary acts of government has alarming historical overtones and raises serious questions about the British state. Why have such acts increased so rapidly under the Coalition? A recent investigation by the Bureau … read more »
Italy’s former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi gestures on a television show in Rome in this February 20, 2013 file photo. An Italian court on March 7, 2013 sentenced Berlusconi to a one-year jail term for making public the taped contents … read more »
London – Britain’s parliament voted heavily in favour of legalising gay marriage on Tuesday, but Prime Minister David Cameron’s authority in his own party took a blow as his Conservatives split in two over the measure he had championed. In … read more »
Spoken fifty years after the former colony’s independence, French President’s words did not constitute the “apology” demanded by several Algerian political parties, argues Oussama Romdhani. On the second day of his first visit to Algeria, French President Francois Hollande stood … read more »
Posted in Algeria, Europe, Global Issues, North Africa
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Tagged Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Algeria, France, François Hollande, Hollande, IndepthAfrica, Oussama Romdhani, President of France
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Pope Benedict XVI on Friday weighed in on a heated debate over gay marriage, criticising new concepts of the traditional family and warning that in the fight for the family, mankind itself is at stake. “In the fight for the … read more »
Posted in America, Europe, Global Issues, Middle East
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Tagged France, Gilles Bernheim, IndepthAfrica, Marriage, Pope Benedict XVI, same sex marriage, Simone de Beauvoir, United States, Vatican City
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Former Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi has revealed that he is engaged to a woman almost 50 years junior to him. He further said, “Finally I feel less alone.” The media baron said on Sunday that his engagement to 28-year-old Francesca … read more »
December 10, 2012 by benim
By Lotte Leicht BRUSSELS – Catherine Ashton’s mandate is to provide leadership on foreign policy and human rights. She has failed, however, to ensure a collective EU voice for bringing the crimes in Syria before the International Criminal Court (ICC). … read more »
(Reuters) – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is suffering from a chronic lung ailment that could worsen at any time and is being checked regularly by doctors, the Andean country’s ambassador to Britain said on Wednesday. Assange, 41, whose website angered … read more »
by Clarice Feldman One of the intriguing aspects of this election is how the Democrats’ shameless and clueless appeal to women is ending with the vaporization of the historic “gender gap” among voters. The Lady Parts Convention From the prancing Code … read more »
Posted in America, Asia, Australia, Europe, Middle East
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Tagged Barack Obama, Celinda Lake, Democratic Party, IndepthAfrica, Mitt Romney, obama, Pew Research Center, Ted Kennedy, The Gallup Organization
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by Robert Spencer “He is very gentle and devoted to his studies,” says the father of Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis, who was arrested after trying to detonate what he thought was a 1,000-pound bomb at the New York City … read more »
Posted in America, Asia, Australia, Europe, Middle East
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Tagged Bangladesh, Detroit Free Press, IndepthAfrica, Islam, John Walker Lindh, Kifah Jayyousi, New York City, Robert Spencer, United States
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Religious relativism is a destroyer of conviction. By Andrew C. McCarthy This column is adapted from Andrew C. McCarthy’s foreword for Andrew Bostom’s Sharia Versus Freedom: The Legacy of Islamic Totalitarianism, published this week by Prometheus Books. ‘Multi-religious prayer almost … read more »
Posted in America, Asia, Europe, Middle East
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Tagged Andrew C. McCarthy, Andrew G. Bostom, IndepthAfrica, Islam, Pope Benedict XVI, Pope John Paul II, Prometheus Books, Qur'an, West
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Pyotr ISKENDEROV Now that the agenda of the upcoming “high-level” talks between Belgrade and Pristina is gradually taking shape, it becomes clear that the dispute is not going to be limited to the Kosovo problem. Rather, the Kosovo Albanians intend … read more »
by JAMES ROTHENBERG The just finished Banned Books Week serves as a vivid reminder that we must be vigilant about freedom of expression and freedom from censorship. Absent this vigilance, we could wake up in a society that not only … read more »
Posted in America, Europe
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Tagged Assange, Barack Obama, Bradley Manning, Cuba, IndepthAfrica, IndepthAfrica world news, Julian Assange, obama, United States, wikileak
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By: James Petras September 25, 2012 The so-called ‘Arab Spring’ is a distant and bitter memory to those who fought and struggled for a better world, not to speak of the thousands who lost life and limb. In its place, … read more »
Posted in America, Asia, Australia, Europe, Middle East
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Tagged Arab Spring, Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, IndepthAfrica, James Petras, Muslim world, Non-Aligned Movement, United States, Washington
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During the Vietnam War, Sweden was an independent country with a moral conscience, and Sweden gave sanctuary to US war protestors who refused the draft. Washington realized the cost to itself and purchased the Swedish government in order to prevent … read more »
It wasn’t a trial but a farce. Following a courtroom saga that made a mockery of Russia’s judicial system and aroused global condemnation, the three female members of the Russian feminist punk band Pussy Riot have been sentenced to two years … read more »
The majority of people in Western countries believe migrants create more problems for their societies than opportunities. Yet, as the latest Transatlantic Trends survey demonstrates, public perceptions of immigration in some of the largest Western states are more subtle than … read more »
Posted in America, Asia, Australia, Europe, Global Issues, Middle East
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Tagged Anti-Immigration, Arab Spring, Barack Obama, German Marshall Fund, immigration, IndepthAfrica, Irregular immigration, United States, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services
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Migration from the Middle East and North Africa to European Union nations is not a recent phenomenon. What has changed, argues Mona Chalabi, is that the EU now views the security dimensions of migration from this region through economic lenses. … read more »
Posted in Article, Europe, Global Issues, Middle East
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Tagged Arab, David Cameron, European Union, IndepthAfrica, Mena, Middle East, Nicolas Sarkozy, North Africa, Western Europe
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Turkey already has troops in Syria and has threatened military action to protect the site they guard. A 1921 agreement between Ottoman Turkey and France (the Treaty of Ankara), the latter at the time the colonial administrator of Syria, guaranteed … read more »
Pyotr ISKENDEROV The collapse of the Romanian opposition’s initiative to unseat president of the country Traian Basescu briefly drew heightened attention to the embattled political leader and, upon scrutiny, highlighted the ongoing erosion of the European unity. The critics of … read more »
Posted in Columnist, Europe, Global Issues, Pyotr ISKENDEROV
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Tagged Africa Countries, africa facts, africa for kids, africa karl wolf, africa lyrics, africa news today, africa song, africa toto, african food, African History, Basescu, Brussels, European Union, IndepthAfrica, reuters africa news, Romania, Romanians, Social-Liberal Union, Traian Băsescu, Victor Ponta
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Yuri GAVRILECHKO The globalization actually encompasses all aspects of private and social life. It also has a dramatic and miserable side of the coin: the differentiation of society, the breakup of traditional interpersonal ties (the decline of family values is … read more »
Posted in Europe, Global Issues
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Tagged Africa Countries, africa facts, africa for kids, africa karl wolf, africa lyrics, Africa news, africa news today, africa song, africa toto, african food, African History, Citizenship of the European Union, Commonwealth of Independent States, Eurasian Union, European, European Union, Germany, Greece, IndepthAfrica, reuters africa news, Soviet Union
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Aleksandr SHUSTOV By the end of July the situation in the Mountaneous Badakhshan (Gorno-Badakhshan) autonomous region abruptly exacerbated. Gordo-Badakhshan is a highland area in the south-eastern part of Tajikistan, making up almost a half (45%) of the territory. The region … read more »
Posted in Aleksandr SHUSTOV, Europe, Global Issues
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Tagged Badakhshan, Dushanbe, Gorno-Badakhshan, Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province, IndepthAfrica, IndepthAfrica Magazine, Khorugh, Soviet Union, Tajik, Tajikistan
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Pyotr ISKENDEROV On July 1 Cyprus has taken over the EU presidency from Denmark that headed the Union hit by financial and economic crisis. Its presidency will hardly smooth over the situation in Europe. Cyprus is moving in the direction … read more »
Alexander MEZYAEV A new International crime tribunal with an abstruse name – International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (MomUT), started to function since July 2. It took on the functions of International Tribunal for Rwanda. In July next year it … read more »
Posted in Alexander MEZYAEV, Columnist, Europe, Global Issues
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Tagged Bosnia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, ICTY, IndepthAfrica, International Criminal Tribunal, International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, Radovan Karadžić, Theodor Meron, Yugoslavia
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In his 2008 book Et Delt Folk(“A Nation Divided”), The Danish historian and writer Morten Uhrskov Jensen carefully went through publicly available sources. He demonstrated that the opening up of his country for mass immigration was arranged by just part … read more »
Pyotr ISKENDEROV The recent rerun in Greece gave the EU a sense of certainty Europe had lacked for quite some time. Considering that the frontrunner in Greece automatically gets extra 50 seats in the 300-seat legislature as a bonus, the … read more »
Posted in Columnist, Europe, Global Issues, Pyotr ISKENDEROV
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Tagged afria travel, Africa news, africa news today, African news, Alexis Tsipras, Antonis Samaras, Athens, BBC Africa, bbc africa news, East Africa, European Union, Eurozone, Greece, Greek, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, india south africa, latest africa news, map africa, map of africa, New Democracy, news, news 24, news in africa, North Africa, South Africa, south african news, travel to africa, West Africa
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Funny MONEY and credit instruments, laced with creative financing and fuzzy math models, have left America wounded, putting the entire economy in structural shock; teetering and tethering. Extension of credits by instruments, a model developed and preached by the West, … read more »
Posted in Europe, Global Issues
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Tagged afria travel, Africa news, africa news today, African news, Austerity, BBC Africa, bbc africa news, East Africa, Finance, Greece, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, india south africa, International Monetary Fund, latest africa news, map africa, map of africa, news, news 24, news in africa, North Africa, Pepper, South Africa, south african news, travel to africa, United States, Wall Street, West Africa, World Bank
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Nikolai MALISHEVSKI Part I Contrary to the claims circulating in the Polish media, mass executions of Russian prisoners of war in Poland in 1919-1920 are not a propaganda myth. One of the earlies accounts of the massacres can be found … read more »
Posted in Europe, Global Issues
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Tagged American Relief Administration, Battle of Warsaw, European Court of Human Rights, IndepthAfrica, Poland, Poles, Polish Land Forces, Red Army, Russia, Russian, Tadeusz Kossak, Warsaw
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