As waves of protests have hit the hydrocarbon-rich Algerian south since 2013, authorities maintained a tenuous peace through handouts, repression and policing. To calm tensions, the state needs to clarify policies, communicate with local protestors and address underlying issues of governance.
A stretch of Somalia's coast has been seized by Islamic State fighters who split from the country's main jihadist militia Al-Shabaab, which is aligned with Al-Qaeda. A concerted response by the Somali federal authorities is now urgently required to contain the threat.
It is only now, due to the economic fallout and the restrictions on imports, that South Africa is waking up to the situation [in Zimbabwe]. A hands-off approach has done little to avert the continued slide downwards.
The relationship [between Egypt and Saudi Arabia] is based on a kind of asymmetric, passive-aggressive, perpetual renegotiation.
The peaceful electoral solution has been taken off the table so what's left to the opposition is to put as much pressure as they can [on President Maduro of Venezuela] in order to persuade the army to change sides and to invite international pressure.
Failure [to uphold the nuclear agreement] could doom future negotiations with countries, like North Korea, that are watching the Iranian experience carefully.
It is true that Turkey is stepping into a foreign country, but it is also true that some of the Iraqi actors have strong links to regional powers. So how to draw the line between what is Iraqi and non-Iraqi? It's kind of difficult.
Some of us looking at the conflict [in Syria] from the West have consistently underestimated the capacity for bloodshed in Syria to worsen. There’s a temptation to think, well, it can’t get any worse. And yet repeatedly it has gotten worse. And I think there’s a lesson there. There’s no reason to believe this will be as bad as things get.
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Les conditions de vie des réfugiés burundais varient selon leurs ressources et la politique du pays d’accueil. Pour quelques-uns, des opportunités se créent ; pour la majorité, le quotidien est synonyme d’attente. Cet article, le deuxième d’une série de trois, retrace des trajectoires bouleversées tandis que les ruptures se superposent – sociales, économiques, scolaires.
Plus de 300 000 Burundais ont fui leur pays depuis avril 2015 pour échapper à la répression du régime de Pierre Nkurunziza. Dans cet article, le premier d’une série de trois, des réfugiés burundais partagent leur histoire douloureuse et tentent ainsi de tirer la sonnette d’alarme sur la violence dans leur pays d'origine.
Originally published in Zimbabwe Independent
Originally published in The Interpreter
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