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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
Egypt Releases 27 Copts Falsely Detained in Maspero Massacre By Mary Abdelmassih Assyrian International News Agency (AINA) — The Cairo Criminal Court decided this week to accept the appeal and release, pending investigations, the remaining 27 Coptic detainees arrested in connection with the events of Maspero Massacre on October 9, where 27 Copts were killed [...]
Holding Libya Together: Security Challenges afte Qadhafi Middle East/North Africa Report N°115 International Crisis Group EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS As the recent upsurge of violence dramatically illustrates, the militias that were decisive in ousting Qadhafi’s regime are becoming a significant problem now that it is gone. Their number is a mystery: 100 according to some; [...]
Thousands of Muslims Attack Christians in Egypt, 2 Killed, Homes and Stores Torched By Mary Abdelmassih Assyrian International News Agency (AINA) — Thousands of Muslims attacked and besieged Copts in elGhorayzat village, population 80,000, killing two Copts and severely wounding others, as well as looting and torching homes and businesses. A quarrel between a Copt, [...]
Egypt: The Revolution Returns International Crisis Group The brutal crackdown on demonstrators that has once again shaken Tahrir Square and unleashed protests across Egypt is tragic, yet it also offers a rare chance to get the transition process back on track precisely at the time when there was every indication it was set to derail. [...]
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. [...]
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