Colombo (25/7 – 30.77) In his book “Sri Lanka’s Easter Sunday Massacre: Lessons for the International Community,” terrorism expert Dr. Rohan Gunaratna emphasizes the importance of de-radicalizing Islamic ideology to effectively combat Islamic terrorism. He identifies...
Tunisia’s eastern coast, notably the port city of Sfax, has become the main launching point for migrants, mostly from sub-Saharan Africa, to get to Italy and other parts of Europe in small boats. The Tunisian National Coast Guards spent 24 hours at sea intercepting and rescuing an ever...
Tunisia and Libya announced Thursday they had agreed to share responsibility for providing shelter for hundreds of migrants stranded at their border, many of them for over a month. The migrants, primarily from sub-Saharan African countries, had been driven to the desert area of Ras Jedir...
After years of campaigning, the African Union may be closer than ever to getting a seat in the G20. In recent years, the G20 has become the forum where key global governance issues are discussed. G20 countries represent around 85% of global GDP, over 75% of global trade, and about two...
The president of the Central African Republic said his country wanted good relations with France, in an interview that followed years of tension fuelled by the CAR’s rapprochement with Russia. “We are not against France,” President Faustin Archange Touadera said in an...
