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), [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Liberia: How Sustainable Is the Recovery? International Crisis Group EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS Liberia’s October 2011 general and presidential elections, the second since civil war ended in 2003, are an opportunity to consolidate its fragile peace and nascent democracy. Peaceful, free and fair elections depend on how well the National Elections Commission (NEC) handles the [...]
A Critical Period for Ensuring Stability in Cote d’Ivoire International Crisis Group The full report is currently only available in French. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS The coming to power of the elected President Ouattara should not mask reality. Côte d’Ivoire remains fragile and unstable. The atrocities after the second round of the presidential elections [...]
UN and France: do they want the head of Laurent Gbagbo in the Ivory Coast? Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times The United Nations (UN) and France are clearly taking sides in the conflict in the Ivory Coast. This comes despite the massacre of 800 to 1,000 Christians in Duekoue who were killed by [...]
UN, France & US in Libya and Ivory Coast: using violence and Islamic forces just like Kosovo Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times The current problems in Libya and Ivory Coast are complex and clearly the opposition has different aspirations. After all, both sides are involved in a bloody conflict and the use of violence is [...]
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