Monthly Archives: January 2013

Somalia, despite improvements, has a long road ahead

January 31, 2024 by Jason Patinkin in Africa.

AMISOM combat engineers repair a stretch of road to Mogadishu

Somalia is being hailed as a success story after twenty years of chaos, but the bombing this week underscores the many challenges remaining.

Argentina and Iran’s new ‘truth commission’

January 31, 2024 by Lora Moftah in Americas, Middle East.

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The Israeli embassy bombing in Buenos Aires in 1992.

The agreement between the two countries has left many international Jewish organizations (along with the Israeli government) angry and demanding answers.

Mali campaign boosts Hollande’s popularity

January 30, 2024 by Lara Vergnaud in Europe.

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People hold a sign reading "Long live Francois Hollande" on January 29, 2024 in Ansongo, a town south of the northern Malian city of Gao, as Niger troops enter the city. (KAMBOU SIA/AFP/Getty Images)

France’s military offensive in Mali has unprecedented public support and remains more popular than President Hollande’s gay-marriage legalization proposal.

Blouin Video: Human rights priorities, 2013

January 30, 2024 by Lora Moftah in Europe.

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Children in Syria's southern Idlib province.

Blouin News sat down with Amnesty International’s Thenjiwe McHarris to discuss the organization’s top priorities for 2013.

Alleged British army abuses in Iraq recall Abu Ghraib scandal

January 30, 2024 by Lara Vergnaud in Europe.

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A British soldier gestures to an Iraqi police officer as they secure the site where a roadside bomb targeted a British foot patrol in the southern city of Basra, 22 March 2006. (ESSAM AL-SUDANI/AFP/Getty Images)

Allegations of torture and unlawful killings by British soldiers with be heard in the U.K.’s High Court this week.

Egypt’s top prosecutor goes after Black Bloc

January 29, 2024 by Lora Moftah in Middle East.

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Members of the Black Bloc are seen during the protest in Tahrir Square in Cairo.

The escalation of the Morsi government’s rhetoric signals alarm at the wave of violence and political action taking place in cities throughout Egypt.

Without more aid, Syrians ‘can’t be helped’

January 29, 2024 by Lara Vergnaud in Middle East.

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A Syrian refugee rests outside his tent at the Zaatri refugee camp, near the Jordanian border with Syria, on September 11, 2012. (KHALIL MAZRAAWI/AFP/GettyImages)

The United Nations appealed for more aid for Syrians as the country’s humanitarian crisis intensifies.

Cops, autocrats, and Ultras: political soccer in Egypt

January 28, 2024 by Lora Moftah in Middle East.

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Egyptian al-Ahly football club ultras and protesters hold portrait of the victims the 2012 Port Said football match killings.

The acronym “A.C.A.B.” — All Cops are Bastards — is spray-painted almost ubiquitously on the streets of every major city in Egypt.

Deadly Brazil fire prompts doubts of Olympic readiness

January 28, 2024 by Lara Vergnaud in Americas.

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A man walks in front of a huge poster depicting works at Itaquerao stadium, aimed at promoting Brazil 2014 FIFA World Cup on January 28, 2024 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. (NELSON ALMEIDA/AFP/Getty Images)

Growing concerns about Brazil’s infrastructural capacities to host the World Cup and the Olympics emerge in the aftermath of a deadly nightclub fire.

U.S. women in combat: ‘It’s about time’

January 26, 2024 by Lara Vergnaud in U.S..

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U.S. Army convoys are given a thumb up from a female soldier after crossing into Kuwait during the last convoy out of Iraq in this December 18, 2024 file photograph.

The decision to allow women in combat roles has aroused indignation from some, and relief from others-namely female veterans home from the front lines of Iraq and Afghanistan.

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