In response to the UK’s threat to raid the embassy, Nawaat, Tunisian leading collective blog tweeted: ‘If the UK storm Ecuador embassy we will storm UK embassy in #Tunisia for violating Vienna convention @wikileaks #assange #tnassenge’
Why a widespread analogy is harmful to fragile post-Arab Spring states and civil societies.
M23's military campaign in North Kivu has profound consequences for Kinshasa and regionally. A regional military force to end the rebellion is hotly disputed: Rwanda and Uganda have interests in the instability, while placing any more foreign troops into this volatile region holds great uncertaint
Burundi has come a long way, but there are still very dark stains on the country's human rights record. Non-governmental diplomacy can help.
Faced with tighter border controls in Europe, African migrants are viewing Latin America as the gateway to the American Dream. But in a long journey marked by violence, corruption, and paperwork, many are left in the morass that surrounds border crossings
Egypt is mourning its soldiers and even more so Egypt’s future and the possible political implications.
The Tunisian Pirate Party combines cyber-revolution with egalitarian politics, a mix that you will not come across elsewhere in over one hundred classical parties that sprung up lately in Tunisia.
As people we need to know why those people got fired, as some people are suggesting that some insiders must have been in on the plan as well as outsider foreign interference… We need to know what's going on since it is our own flesh and blood that keep getting killed.
Many reasons lie behind the loss of momentum of the February 20th movement. One is that its leaders and strong supporters were unaware of methods the Moroccan regime would take to contain the movement’s nation-wide protests.
This is a momentous occasion in Libyan history, yet read about Libya in the international media and you might find this hard to believe. Reports paint a picture of a country on the edge of the abyss, the new Iraq or Afghanistan.