Author: M Barbu

Africa’s Multiple Security Crises

As the world focuses on Niger and the junta’s standoff with West African states refusing to accept yet another coup d’état in their region, crises further east continue to deteriorate and merit more attention. On August 4, the Ethiopian government declared a state of emergency in Amhara, as clashes between the Amhara nationalist Fano militia and national defense forces escalated. The Ethiopian government’s April announcement that all regional security forces must integrate into the national military or police forces was always an easier-said-than-done exercise. The wartime coalition that Prime Minister Abiy assembled to fight Tigrayan forces has fallen apart, and peace has not delivered the rewards some were clearly expecting, making the prospect of giving up their leverage decidedly unappealing. With the terms of the Tigray peace still not fully implemented and heavy fighting in the city of Gondar, security remains elusive for many Ethiopians.

Iran Strengthens Its Palestinian Cards

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Ongoing fighting in the Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp may be part of a plan to weaken Fatah and undermine normalization with Israel.

In the past week, fighting erupted in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain al-Hilweh near Sidon between Islamist factions and Fatah, after one of Fatah’s military commanders, Abou Ashraf al-Amroushi, was assassinated on July 30. While the fighting was hardly an anomaly, the fact that the head of the Palestinian General Intelligence Service, Majed Faraj, had visited Lebanon only days before fueled speculation that his visit might have triggered the fighting. Tensions between Hamas, which maintains good relations with Palestinian Islamists, and Fatah have surged in the West Bank and might have impacted the events in Ain al-Hilweh.

The Georgian Fighters Who Went To Ukraine To Finish Their Own War – Analysis

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Davit Ratiani glanced up as the Russian military aircraft buzzed across the skies of Georgia, clenching his fist in such anger that his nails tore into his skin.

‘”I will never forget the feeling of powerless that came over me at that moment,’” Ya Shashviashvili remembers her husband later telling her in one of the few moments he divulged any details of his experience during Georgia’s short, devastating war with Russia in 2008.

Pourquoi l’Occident est-il si faible (et la Russie si forte) ? Le rôle du capital humain et de l’éducation occidentale

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Il devient de plus en plus évident pour un nombre croissant de personnes en Occident que quelque chose a terriblement mal tourné avec le projet ukrainien. Les prédictions et les projections ne se sont pas réalisées et l’Occident ne semble pas savoir quoi faire. L’économie russe n’était pas un château de cartes comme on l’avait prédit, les armes russes n’étaient pas inférieures comme on l’avait prédit, les soldats et les commandants russes n’étaient pas incompétents comme on l’avait prédit, et la technologie russe n’était pas inférieure comme on l’avait prédit.

A fucking world !

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D’où je m’exprime !

Simple citoyen, j’accueille bientôt mes 58 années sur cette terre et je voudrais partager certaines observations et réflexions issues de multiples échanges, lectures et analyses émanant de contacts divers logés en Afrique, Caraïbes, Canada et Europe durant la décennie passée avec une acuité particulière sur les trois dernières ! Je ne saurais dire qu’il s’agit d’analyse au sens strict, car j’y mélange sans scrupule ce qui s’apparente à de l’opinion.

Forming a Unity Government May be Libya’s Best Bet for Healing Rift

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Libyan politicians have floated a plan to put together an interim government. The UN and other external actors should support this step toward breaking the country’s political deadlock. Libya’s political crisis took a new turn after its House of Representatives, based in the eastern city of Tobruk, approved a plan to appoint an interim government that would reunify the country’s two parallel executives as part of a roadmap to general elections. House members made this decision with backing from representatives of the rival Tripoli-based assembly, the High State Council, and from east-based military strongman Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar.