Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Zack Baddorf SOUTH SUDAN, Aug 13, 2010 (IPS) – When Timothy was forced into the southern Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) at age 11, the first thing they did was beat him. Then they took him to a military base where his tasks were to carry other [...]
IRAQ: ‘We’re Not Living, Just Not Dying’
August 4, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Jake Hess SULEYMANIYA, Iraq, Aug 4, 2010 (IPS) – Compared to most internally displaced Kurds in northern Iraq, Shamal Qadir is almost lucky. Since the Turkish army devastated his village, Kuzine, in a bombing raid Jul. 1, he’s been living in a schoolhouse, where room temperatures are [...]
UN in a Blind Alley as Peace Eludes Darfur
July 29, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Richard Johnson IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis GENEVA (IDN) – As the mandate, being carried out by the UN-African Union mission in Darfur (UNAMID), comes to an end on July 31, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s report to the Security Council indicates that the situation in Sudan’s western region is [...]
B. Raman: MY THOUGHTS ON AFGHANISTAN
July 19, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy By B.RAMAN The situation in Afghanistan differs in some significant aspects from the situation that had prevailed when the Soviet troops withdrew in 1988-89. 2.The Soviets had left in Najibullah a capable Pashtun leader who was a three-in-one—- a leader with good political instincts, a good military commander and a [...]
Somalia Centre Stage Ahead of AU Summit
July 18, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Joshua Kyalimpa KAMPALA, Jul 18, 2010 (IPS) – The African Union summit opens in Kampala on July 19 amid heightened security following twin bomb attacks a week earlier. The official theme of child and maternal mortality will likely be overshadowed by discussion of the AU’s mission in [...]
Afghanistan Looks like Slipping Away
July 17, 2010 By
Afghanistan Looks like Slipping Away Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN Afghanistan Looks like Slipping Away An Anti-Taliban Forces fighter in Helmand Province in Afghanistan, Jan 2002. | Credit: Wikimedia Commons By Prakash Joshi IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis NEW DELHI (IDN) – As the war in Afghanistan enters another summer of increasing violence, a new report [...]
Obama Says U.S. Will "Redouble" Efforts Against Al-Shabaab
July 15, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Jim Lobe* WASHINGTON, Jul 14, 2010 (IPS) – U.S. President Barack Obama has said Washington will "redouble" its efforts against the Somali Islamist group al- Shabaab (The Youth), whose deadly bombings in Kampala Sunday are likely to result in stepped-up U.S. military and other assistance to the [...]
Turks Let Kurdish Forests Burn
July 13, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Jake Hess SIRNAK, Turkey, Jul 13, 2010 (IPS) – The Turkish General Directorate of Forestry claims to devote the bulk of its resources to combating forest fires, but it is passively observing the Turkish army ignite forested areas in the country’s predominantly Kurdish southeastern region. Residents of [...]
The upshot of political subjugation
July 10, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy Originally Published on Aljazeera.net, July 8, 2010 Read the article on the original site. By Abukar Arman If I could think of any tactfully discreet and diplomatically clear way to describe the outcome of the 15th Extraordinary Session of the IGAD Assembly of Heads of State and Government on Somalia [...]
Western Sahara Back on Radar Screens
July 6, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Ramesh Jaura IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis BERLIN (IDN) – Western Sahara, one of the most thinly populated territories in the world, mainly consisting of desert flatlands, is drawing renewed focus after having been consigned to mainstream neglect for years. The disputed territories are back on radar screens in the [...]
