Sahel faces surge in violence from terror attacks
The Sahel is facing an unprecedented wave of violence, with more than 4,000 deaths reported last year, and a bloody start to 2020.
Sweden and its Welfare State in Crisis
Within a generation, Sweden’s third largest city, Malmö, will have a population in which the majority of people are of foreign background. How will integrating immigrants take place then, and which group will be integrated into which?
Fighting Over Access to Libya’s Energy Supplies
Fighting in Libya has dragged on for the past eight years following the ouster of the country’s longtime leader, the dictator Muammar Qaddafi.
New EU Report on Integration Misses the Point
It is worth noticing that the European Commission places the responsibility for integration of third-country nationals exclusively on the shoulders of EU member states.
10 Characteristics of 10 Jihadist Groups Troubling Sahel and Nigeria
Just as Boko Haram and ISWAP attacks have led to thousands of deaths in Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad and Niger, so have these terror groups caused thousands of deaths in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger Republic. The Jihadist groups include Macina Libration Front, Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (ISGS), Ansaroul Islam, Katiba Serma, Al-Qaeda in the Magreb Sahara (AQIM), Al Mourabitoun, Katiba Salheddin, Ansar Dine, Jam’at Nusrat al Islam wal Muslimeen (JNIM), and some unaffiliated groups. These groups have a common modus operandi, but operate in different regions and countries. However, in 2017 JNIM was formed as the rallying point for all of them, becoming the international face of the group. A report released by Human Rights Watch in December 2019 showed that between April 2019 and the end of last year, JNIM and its affiliates had killed more than 250 persons in Burkina Faso alone.
Inside Nigeria’s Failed Vision 2020
Ten years may sound like a blurry, distant future. But built into them are minutes, hours, days, weeks, months and years that provide harbor for infinitesimal opportunities that transform the lives of men and the fortunes of nations. Men and nations who benefit from time are those who employ their imagination in crafting long-term visions and discipline themselves to take little, vital steps leading to the realization of visions propounded by their imaginations.
Corpses sent home as Syrians fight Turkey’s war in Libya
The war in Libya was just another news story to the people of Hasakah province until the corpses arrived.
Syria’s strategic highways open, interests converge with no clear strategy
A fierce military campaign by government forces and their allied militias in Maarat al-Numan in northern Idlib province left the city looking like a ghost town, Muhammad al-Uthman, a resident of the city, said in an interview with Syria Direct. Nearly all its residents vacated and only a handful returned to check on property they left behind.
Reforme dictate și guverne controlate de companii
Aproape două milioane de români riscă să rămână fără pensii, generația celor născuți în anii 1970, ne avertizează guvernul PNL. ”Sistemul de pensii este ca un Caritas”, ne spune ministrul de Finante. „Se lucrează la un proiect. Dacă vă aduceţi aminte, există şi în Camera Deputaţilor un astfel de proiect prin care să poţi să optezi pentru a putea lucra până la 70 de ani. Dacă se va ajunge la concluzia că există o susţinere pentru această idee, este posibil să luăm această măsură”, spune vicepremierul Raluca Turcan. Tot ea spune că Pilonul II de pensii trebuie întărit, că pensia trebuie cât mai mult asigurată dintr-o sursă de finanțare alternativă.
Mossad: The history of Israel’s deadly assassins
Clinical and quick, the killing of Hamas military commander Mahmoud al-Mabhouh looked exactly like a Mossad assassination.
Hours after checking into his five-star Dubai hotel room, al-Mabhouh lay suffocated and his killers were on planes out of the country on fake British, Irish and Canadian passports.