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...wasn't aware of, and he was criticized in fact for micromanaging." An official expression of skepticism about the motivation behind Ali's firing came from the U.S. embassy, which said in a statement that the move was a "potential" first step on the path toward reform. (Read "In Africa, Can Clinton Be Obama's Surrogate...
...report delivered earlier this year, Alston found a "systematic, widespread and carefully planned strategy" of executions by police, but no member of the force has been tried. The government's response has been to try to get Alston removed from his position. (See pictures of China's investments in Africa...
...dumbest, most dangerous things I did here was dive headfirst off the Charles bridge on Halloween one night, off the Weeks Bridge. As far as danger goes, that was not such a great one. The things that happened abroad, that happened in East Africa, I’ve been remarkably lucky. Sometimes I’ve traveled in places where there was insecurity. I’ve been careful and fortunate, so it’s been okay...
Despite that success, concerns over al-Qaeda in Africa have continued to grow as the group demonstrates an ever more muscular presence with a series of bombings, kidnappings and assassinations, from Mauritania to Somaliland. The Somali connection is proving to be a particular worry with the regrouping of militants under the new unified command of a group called al-Shabaab and the discovery that scores of young Muslim men from the U.S., Britain and Australia are traveling to Somalia to receive weapons training in al-Shabaab camps. This year, three men from Minneapolis pleaded guilty to terrorism-related charges...
...have stopped a shipment of missiles from reaching Iran. As the two countries work more closely together, it appears Israel avoided any post-op crisis and successfully negotiated with its much larger counterpart on the issue. Around the time the ship was discovered off the west coast of Africa, Israeli President Shimon Peres even declared victory of a kind, announcing that Russia would reconsider selling a variety of missiles types to Iran; in what seems Russia’s preferred form of disclosure, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev’s office neither confirmed nor denied the claim that Medvedev...