Nigeria and the threat of Islamist Terrorism: Boko Haram and Amnesty Paul Joseph Nzeribe and Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times The government of Nigeria is currently using helicopter gunships and fighter jets against the Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram. At the same time, President Goodluck Jonathan is leaving a channel open by providing an [...]
Mali and the European Union: Stability is in the Interest of Africa and Europe Boutros Hussein and Walter Sebastian Modern Tokyo Times The country of Mali needs urgent economic input into the nation in order to start the process of restructuring areas plagued by international jihadists, to develop the infrastructure and to strengthen the central [...]
Mali Needs Economic Development to Flow Alongside the 12,600 UN Peacekeeping Force Walter Sebastian and Pierre Leblanc Modern Tokyo Times The international community is responding to events in Mali and this can be seen by the promised 12,600 United Nations (UN) peacekeeping force which is planned from July. In a short-period of time France and [...]
Nigeria and Mali: Islamist Terrorism, Indoctrination and Gulf Petrodollars Murad Makhmudov and Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times The Nigerian armed forces have been involved in heavy clashes with Islamist militants near the border of Chad in the last few days. Estimates vary about the numbers of people killed but irrespective of the final death [...]
Cameroon and Nigeria: French Hostages Released and Overture to Boko Haram Omar Abdullah Ismail and Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria is trying to make overtures to the Islamist Boko Haram movement by providing breathing space for the government and this terrorist organization. At the same time, seven members of [...]
Burkina Faso and Niger and the Border Decision of ICJ: The Kosovo Diktat Boutros Hussein and Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times The two West African nations of Burkina Faso and Niger have stated that they both fully endorse the border decision of the International Court of Justice (ICJ). According to both nations they are [...]
France Needs to Support Mali to the Full: President Hollande and Shadows of Al-Qaeda Pierre Leblanc and Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times The nation of Mali needs France to maintain its full support towards this nation because in Afghanistan and Somalia, and in other nations, the forces of al-Qaeda (and other Islamist factions) have [...]
Central African Republic and Mali: Chad, France, Centralization and Ghost Warriors Boutros Hussein and Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times Throughout early 2013 the nations of the Central African Republic (CAR), Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Mali have witnessed the usual “ghost warriors,” whereby central states appear illusionary. Of course, the developments throughout early [...]
Islamists Slaughter in Iraq, Nigeria and Syria: Yet in Syria it is Sanctioned Boutros Hussein and Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times In the last few days more Islamist terrorist attacks have slaughtered untold numbers of people in Iraq, Nigeria and Syria. Massacres in Pakistan also are mounting and the crisis in Afghanistan is never [...]
France and Syria: Hollande, Mohammed Merah, FSA Terrorism and Gulf Petrodollars Helmet Joachim Schmidt and Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times The blind hatred of Mohammed Merah had no boundaries therefore killing Jewish children in the name of Allah was appropriate for his militant Islamist ideas. This hatred is clearly visible in Syria whereby many [...]
Islamists in Nigeria Brutally Murder North Korean and Nigerian Health Care Workers Pierre Leblanc and Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times In the last few days twelve health care workers have been brutally murdered by suspected Islamists in northern Nigeria. This applies to three separate attacks whereby nine Nigerian female vaccinators were gunned down in [...]
Mali, Nigeria and France: Islamists Attacked in Mali and Northern Nigeria Helmut Joachim Schmidt and Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times The continuing attack against Islamists in Mali being led by France is gaining in momentum. At the same time, Nigeria launched a military attack against Islamist insurgents in northern Nigeria. Nigeria is also intent [...]
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