by MRN | Nov 18, 2013 | Africa
Libya’s capital city Tripoli was at a virtual standstill yesterday. Most of Tripoli’s businesses, schools and public sector workers went out on strike, demanding that militias leave the city. A 48-hour state of emergency was declared Saturday. Tripoli saw some of the...
by MRN | Jan 1, 2013 | Uncategorized
Watching the local news bulletin regarding the situation in Mali left me in deep contemplation. The tragic tale of Islamic heritage being torched, erasing the famous Quranic manuscripts of Timbuktu that South Africa contributed generously towards preserving. As grief...
by MRN | Jan 1, 2013 | Archive 2012
Trying to make sense of the Islamist advance southwards Andy Morgan writes: The vastly conflicting accounts of victories, defeats, advances, retreats, casualties and captives that have come spewing forth from the mouths of the spokespersons on either side of the...
by MRN | Jan 1, 2013 | Archive 2012
As French war planes bomb Mali, there is one simple statistic that provides the key context: this west African nation of 15 million people is the eighth country in which western powers – over the last four years alone – have bombed and killed Muslims...
by MRN | Jan 1, 2013 | Archive 2012
The speed and extent with which French warplanes have been deployed over the weekend in the West African country, Mali, point to a well-honed plan for intervention by the former colonial power. Indeed, such is the careful choreography of this salient military...
