by MRN | Aug 8, 2013 | World
Seasons come and go, yet Arab countries are in ongoing turmoil. They called it an ‘Arab Spring’, but even if that ‘spring’ had ever existed in the shape and form that the media portrayed it to be, it never really lasted. It has now morphed into something far more...
by MRN | Aug 2, 2013 | Africa
A senior official of Algeria’s Islamic Salvation Front (FIS), Ali Belhadj, has called on the Egyptian and Tunisian leaders to “learn from the Algerian experience and prevent it...
by MRN | Jan 1, 2013 | Uncategorized
The only thing that surprised me when I heard that the Algerian kidnappers had called for the release of Dr Aafia Siddiqui was that it hadn’t happened sooner. Don’t get me wrong, as a former hostage myself, there is no way I condone the actions of what has unfolded in...
by MRN | Jan 1, 2013 | Uncategorized
The French intervention in Mali, followed by the bloody siege in Algeria, represents a turning point in what has emerged as a new imperialist scramble for Africa. With these events, following on the heels of the US-NATO war for regime-change in Libya and the...
