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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Prosecutor Warns Not to Ignore al-Shabaab Threat IPT News Steven Emerson and The Investigative Project on Terrorism U.S. policymakers need “to take al-Shabaab seriously” when the Somali terror group talks about targeting the United States, longtime federal prosecutor W. Anders Folk told the Investigative Project on Terrorism. He emphasized that Al-Shabaab, al-Qaida in the Arabian [...]
Khartoum Besieged? : Sudan’s Rebel Movements Unite against the Center Publication: Terrorism Monitor Volume: 9 Issue: 43 By: Andrew McGregor The Jamestown Foundation Sudan’s military offensive against rebels in its southern Blue Nile and Southern Kordofan provinces has begun to spill over the new border with South Sudan with potentially devastating results for the region. [...]
Clan and Conflict in Somalia: Al-Shabaab and the Myth of Transcending Clan Politics Publication: Terrorism Monitor Volume: 9 Issue: 40 By: Ahren Schaefer, Andrew Black The Jamestown Foundation Clan identity and Islam are central pillars of Somali society, with clan dynamics and inter-clan rivalries magnified by decades of state collapse. Al-Shabaab – the dominant Islamist [...]
Japan will send Ground Self-Defense Force to assist South Sudan Boutros Hussein and Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times The government of Japan announced that an engineering unit of the Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF) will assist the new nation of South Sudan. Therefore, the GSDF unit will assist the United Nations (U.N.) peacekeeping operations and [...]
Apostate to Christianity beheaded in Somalia and Saudi hatred in the UK Joachim de Villiers and Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times In nations like Somalia and Saudi Arabia apostates from Islam face the death penalty and in Pakistan the death penalty even applies to blasphemy. If you want to understand how Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism [...]
Conflict Risk Alert: Stopping the Spread of Sudan’s New Civil War International Crisis Group Civil war is spreading in Sudan, and concerted international action is needed to stem the violence and prevent it from engulfing the entire country and the wider region. Khartoum’s most recent military offensive — this time in Blue Nile state — [...]
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