Sudan and South Sudan crisis and the international community Joachim de Villiers and Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times Recent tensions between Sudan and South Sudan are setting off alarm bells within the African Union (AU) and throughout the international community. The policies of Arabization and Islamizaton were endless for many decades because of various [...]
South Sudan seeks a solution to threats from Sudan: Uganda also watching events Joachim de Villiers, Pierre Leblanc and Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times Recent tensions between Sudan and South Sudan point clearly in the favor of South Sudan which is seeking a solution to a very delicate situation. President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan, on [...]
Sudan and South Sudan on the verge of more bloodshed Joachim de Villiers, Pierre Leblanc and Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times Omar al-Bashir, the President of Sudan, commented that he wanted to “liberate” the new entity of South Sudan from its own leaders. This was stated after forces from South Sudan entered and seized [...]
Uganda: No Resolutions to Growing Tensions International Crisis Group Africa Report N°187 5 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Most Ugandans are better off than they were a quarter-century ago, when Yoweri Museveni became president. But frequent demonstrations and violent crackdowns indicate many are deeply dissatisfied with his administration. This is largely the consequence of a slow shift from [...]
Syria: outsiders support terrorism and US & Saudi Arabian jigsaw under Obama Murad Makhmudov and Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times The so-called “Friends of Syria People” held a meeting in Turkey, a nation which invaded Cyprus and where the Kurds have been brutally suppressed for decades, with the end result being to increase terrorist [...]
Putting Mali Back on the Constitutional Track International Crisis Group Regional leaders and the wider international community must act quickly to help put Mali back on the path of constitutional order. In the wake of the military coup that overthrew President Amadou Toumani Touré on 21 March, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), [...]
Tunisians See Washington as Too Cozy with Islamists IPT News The Investigative Project on Terrorism Journalist Michael Totten has an intriguing report from Tunisia, where he finds rampant frustration toward the United States for its embrace of the new Islamist-controlled government there. After dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was ousted in the first Arab Spring uprising last year, [...]
Nigeria and the Sunni Islamic insurgency of Boko Haram : over 170 killed in Kano Boutros Hussein and Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times Islamists in northern Nigeria have killed more than 170 people in the city of Kano after many bomb blasts and gun attacks. It is clear that Boko Haram is not only [...]
Egypt’s Winds of Change Give Way to Dark Clouds IPT News Steven Emerson and The Investigative Project on Terrorism As President Hosni Mubarak’s regime fell in Egypt, some feared that radical Islamists were poised to take over the state and the country. This opinion was not shared in America by leading voices in government and [...]
Review of 2011 internationally and events in Japan (March 11 and brutal tsunami) James Jomo and Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times In 2011 many political convulsions have challenged nations in North Africa and the Middle East. The optimism of the so-called “Arab Spring” remains to be unfulfilled because you have so much uncertainty in [...]
Nigeria must brace itself for more Boko Haram terrorist attacks Murad Makhmudov and Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times Nigeria is multi-ethnic and multi-religious and you have many different religious denominations within Christianity and Islam, which are the two dominant religious groups in this county. However, from a religious point of view then Boko Haram and [...]
The Twitter War: A New Battleground for Kenya and al-Shabaab Publication: Terrorism Monitor Volume: 9 Issue: 47 By: Muhyadin Ahmed Roble The Jamestown Foundation Two months after Kenya launched a military intervention into Somalia in an effort to seize the al-Shabaab stronghold of Kismayu, the Kenyan military and the Somali militants have entered into [...]
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