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ADDIS ABABA — The United Nations Development Program has released its 2013 Human Development Index. Despite recent economic growth, Ethiopia is still near the bottom of the index. Ethiopia ranks 173 out of 187 countries in the Human Development Index … read more »
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Tagged Addis Ababa, Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Human Development Index, Human Development Report, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Sierra Leone, United Nations Development Programme
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ADDIS ABABA — The United Nations Development Program has released its 2013 Human Development Index. Despite recent economic growth, Ethiopia is still near the bottom of the index. Ethiopia ranks 173 out of 187 countries in the Human Development Index … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Afghanistan, Ethiopia, ethiopia addis ababa, ethiopia latest news, Ethiopian, ethiopian news, Ethiopians, Human Development Index, Human Development Report, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, indepthindepthafrica, latest ethiopian news, news ethiopia, Sierra Leone, UNDP, United Nations Development Programme
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Recent coverage of Somalia has been dominated by the horrific case of a woman who was prosecuted and sexually assaulted after reporting her rape by government security forces to the police. Cynics are starting to wonder: is the new government … read more »
Posted in Analysis, East Africa, Somali
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Tagged Afghanistan, Al-Qaeda, Al-Shabaab, Hamid Karzai, IndepthAfrica, Kismayo, Somalia, somalia 1993, somalia history, somalia is dying, somalia map, somalia poverty, somalia tourism, somalia war, Somaliland, Taliban, United States
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(AP) A French soldier has died in some of the most intense fighting thus far in the seven-week-old military campaign to push back a jihadist advance in Mali, officials said Sunday. Parachutist Corporal Cedric Charenton was killed Saturday night in … read more »
At the demise of communist bloc in the late 80s and early 90s, two socio-political thinkers rose to theorize on the emerging world order and the shape of the age to come. The first was Francis Fukuyama who predicted the … read more »
Posted in Article, Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged Afghanistan, Boko Haram, Cold War, Francis Fukuyama, IndepthAfrica, Nigeria, Nigeria news, Nigerian, nigerian newspapers, Osama bin Laden, Soviet Union, Taliban
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By Franklin Lamb Truth told, this American observer has attended his share of international conferences and has traveled in more than 70 countries. But never has he visited such a complex country, evolving culture, and striving energized society, populated by … read more »
(Reuters) – Canada is unlikely to commit troops to the French-led campaign against Islamist rebels in Mali because it is threatening to become a counter-insurgency operation similar to those in Iraq and Afghanistan, Foreign Minister John Baird said on Tuesday. … read more »
A year after she was pardoned from prison on the condition she agree to marry her rapist, a young Afghan woman, faced with distressingly few options, has now reluctantly wed her attacker. In 2009, Gulnaz, then 16 years old, gained … read more »
PAUL ROGERS The combination of western advance and rebel retreat in northern Mali echoes the initial phase of the anti-Taliban campaign in Afghanistan. Britain’s upgraded military commitment makes the parallel even more acute. France’s military operation to take control of … read more »
By Terra Lawson-Remer Transparency International just released its 2012 country rankings of corruption in the public sector. The index is based on a variety of corruption-related data, including public opinion polls and assessments collected from experts living and working in … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Somali
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Tagged Afghanistan, Finland, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, New Zealand, North Korea, somali news, Somalia, Transparency International, UNICEF
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Two renowned Africa experts called for an immediate international intervention in Mali Wednesday at a roundtable discussion in Ottawa. Robert Fowler, former deputy minister of national defense and ambassador to the United Nations, and Robert Rotberg, of Harvard University’s Kennedy … read more »
With the re-election of Barack Obama as president of the leading imperialist state in the world, the foreign policy orientation of the second administration will continue along the same trajectory of exploitation of the labour and resources of oppressed peoples … read more »
The military scandal gripping America took an extraordinary twist last night when a second general was linked to one of the two women who precipitated the fall of CIA director General David Petraeus. Petraeus, 60, hailed by some as the … read more »
By Sybille Fuchs The US is increasingly using private security forces to wage its wars and maintain its occupation of countries after the withdrawal of regular troops. Both in Iraq and Afghanistan, thousands of mercenaries and dozens of private security … read more »
Posted in Article, Uganda
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Tagged Afghanistan, IndepthAfrica, Iraq, Joseph Kony, Uganda, Ugandan, ugandan news, United States, World Socialist Web Site, Yoweri Museveni
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By Sabahat Khan, Unilateral U.S. drone strikes in the tribal areas of Pakistan have been a contentious and thorny issue between Washington and Islamabad for some years now but a new political movement being spearheaded by Imran Khan – leader … read more »
Posted in Analysis, Asia
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Tagged Afghanistan, drone, Imran Khan, ISLAMABAD, Mali, Pakistan, Pakistan Air Force, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, Syria, Tumor, United Nations Security Council, Washington
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Valentin KATASONOV Part I As noted in the previous part of the paper, the global drug mafia is a three-level formation. The strategic objectives pursued at the executive Level 3 are: • The whitewashing of the cash flows generated by … read more »
Posted in Global Issues, Valentin KATASONOV
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Tagged Afghanistan, Antonio Maria Costa, Coleman, Committee of 300, East India Company, IndepthAfrica, indepthafrica africa news, Organized crime, Western Hemisphere, World War II
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By: Zabihullah Noori Afghan President Hamid Karzai — an out of favour character, not only among the world leaders, but also among many Afghans — seeks ways to regain fame by bringing the Taliban around the negotiation table. Many Afghans … read more »
While the President of Nigeria, Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan, GCFR and the commander in chief of the Armed Forces, was giving his Independence Day address on NTA, the head of the terrorist leadership Mujahdeen Abubakar Shekau, Supreme Commander of the … read more »
Posted in Article, Nigeria
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Tagged Afghanistan, bokoharam, IndepthAfrica, indepthafrica africa news, Islamism, Nigeria, Nigerian Armed Forces, terrorism, United States, Youtube
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By: B. Raman Al Qaeda in North Waziristan, Al Qaeda in the Arab Peninsula (AQAP), the NeoTaliban of Afghanistan and the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) have been closely following the presidential election campaign in the US. While they have kept up … read more »
Posted in America, Article
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Tagged Afghanistan, AlQaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Barack Obama, IndepthAfrica, indepthafrica africa news, Libya, obama, Taliban, United States
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Kabul – A female suicide car bomber attacked a van in Kabul on Tuesday, killing 12 people, including eight South Africans, in an assault insurgents said was in revenge for an anti-Islam film made in America. The bombing on a … read more »
Posted in News, South Africa, Southern Africa
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Tagged Afghan National Army, Afghan National Police, Afghanistan, IndepthAfrica, IndepthAfrica African news, International Security Assistance Force, Kabul, NATO, Politics of Afghanistan, United States
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By: Anthony Gregory On the eve of September 10, 2001, I went to sleep a libertarian, distrustful of the state, holding both major political parties in contempt, seeing the federal government as the primary enemy of the American people, their … read more »
On the eve of Barack Obama’s acceptance of the Democratic Party nomination for reelection as president, a new report detailing the waterboarding and other forms of CIA torture meted out to Libyan detainees served to demolish the Democrats’ image, endlessly … read more »
Melkulangara BHADRAKUMAR The 2012 Democratic Platform, the 40-page document released on Monday, can be regarded as United States President Barack Obama’s election manifesto in the November election. There is a lengthy portion set aside in it outlining the foreign-policy orientations … read more »
Posted in America, Columnist, Global Issues, Melkulangara BHADRAKUMAR
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Tagged Afghanistan, Al-Qaeda, Barack Obama, IndepthAfrica, India, Mitt Romney, obama, Pakistan, United States
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In the past two weeks at least nine Americans have been killed by their Afghan alliesin what is known to as “insider killings.” Members of the Afghan army, having been trained and armed by NATO forces, are turning their weapons … read more »
Two Afghan soldiers tried to gun down a group of NATO troops outside a military base in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday, officials said. No international forces were killed, but one of the attackers was killed as NATO forces shot back. … read more »
By Michael Keating Listening to Niger’s President Mahamadou Issofou’s recent interview on Al Jazeera one comes away with the impression that everything in Niger is fine except for the terrible things that are going on across its borders: gun drunk … read more »
Posted in Article, News, Niger, West Africa
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Melkulangara BHADRAKUMAR After months of tortuous negotiations with the United States, Pakistan has reopened the transit routes for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization convoys heading toward Afghanistan. The US rendered an apology, finally, for its massacre of 27 Pakistani soldiers … read more »
Posted in Asia, Global Issues, Melkulangara BHADRAKUMAR
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Tagged Afghanistan, Hillary Rodham Clinton, IndepthAfrica, ISLAMABAD, NATO, Pakistan, Pakistani, Pentagon, United States
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ABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban claimed responsibility on Monday for a roadside bombing that they said killed six American troops in a volatile part of eastern Afghanistan. Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said in a statement the blast struck the U.S. … read more »
Andrei AKULOV The 12th Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit took place in Beijing on June 6-7, 2012. The annual event brought together the heads of states to review and gauge the importance of the SCO in global affairs. China hosted … read more »
Posted in Andrei AKULOV, Asia, Columnist, Global Issues
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Tagged Afghanistan, Asia Pacific, Barack Obama, China, Eurasian Economic Community, IndepthAfrica, Russia, SCO, Shanghai Cooperation Organisation
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Rafe MAIR The US. and to a lesser degree Canada, have little to teach, let alone preach about democracy. I know something of this from personal experience because I sat in the British Columbia Legislature and in its cabinet for … read more »
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