14 March 2023 media quotes - late addition Share Facebook Twitter Email Linkedin Whatsapp Save Print 17 August 2021 One of the realities that has been realized in the past two decades is that advancing human rights policy through military intervention is extremely difficult. Washington Post Stephen Pomper Chief of Policy 26 March 2022 The UN has to be cautious. I think, when it comes to specific policy issues like peacekeeping [in Ukraine]. CBC Ashish Pradhan Senior Advisor to the President 8 February 2023 The Malian army is now demonstrating its ability to organize complex operations, particularly in the center of the country. Le Monde Ibrahim Maiga Senior Adviser, Sahel 22 February 2023 What Somaliland is probably trying to do by saying there are terrorists involved in the fighting is to discredit their opponent. The Guardian Nicolas Delaunay Project Director, East and Southern Africa 5 October 2022 What we see in Mali is that Russia does not bring more security or improvements in the situation. The Russian army in Ukraine is not doing well, and in Mali, the Wagner Group is not doing well at all. Foreign Policy Rinaldo Depagne Deputy Program Director, Africa & Project Director, West Africa 23 February 2023 We must take these [Nigerian presidential elections] polls with a generous amount of salt.The poll samples are small and focusing on literate people. Reuters Nnamdi Obasi Senior Adviser, Nigeria 17 January 2023 Russian engagement in the Sahel is very low-cost [financially]. It is distracting the West and diminishing the West’s symbolic power. OZY Franklin Nossiter Researcher, Sahel 22 February 2023 Ce serait une erreur diplomatique de l’Occident que de trop forcer la main aux gouvernements africains sur le dossier ukrainien. Cela heurte beaucoup de sensibilités. Le Monde Liesl Louw-Vaudran Senior Adviser, African Union 5 August 2022 I think the reason why [Mukhtar Robow, ex-Al-Shabab leader] was brought from house arrest to the cabinet minister is to create a counter-narrative to that of al-Shabab. Al Jazeera Zakaria Yusuf Analyst, Somalia 23 February 2022 The authorities [in Cameroon] should persecute those who are responsible for crimes and include women in the peace process. VOA Arrey Elvis Ntui Consulting Senior Analyst, Cameroon 2 August 2022 Nous sommes préoccupés par le temps que le Kenya pourra consacrer à la politique étrangère et à la médiation régionale s'il est accaparé par tant de dossiers au niveau national. VOA Meron Elias East and Southern Africa Analyst 4 February 2022 Bissau has [a] special property: many key events never get really clarified, nobody is too sure who killed who. Financial Times Vincent Foucher Consulting Senior Analyst, West Africa 19 December 2022 At the moment, we think that China has not fully developed the capability to guarantee a sure victory if it chooses to launch a military option on Taiwan. CNA Ivy Kwek Fellow, China 28 December 2019 Les autorités [Birmanes] ont donc pris des mesures qui touchent à la liberté de mouvement. Les réfugiés n’ont plus le droit de sortir des camps et les autorités ont coupé les téléphones portables. RFI Pierre Prakash Program Director, Asia 25 August 2022 This regional rivalry between India and China is only bound to get more intense as it gets enmeshed with the great power rivalry between the US and China. TRTWORLD Praveen Donthi Senior Analyst, India 6 May 2022 Time has passed since the time of Martial Law, and if you look at the demographics, it is mostly older Filipinos who remember and are opposed to BBM. Foreign Policy Georgi Engelbrecht Senior Analyst, Philippines 10 November 2022 You might ask ‘why would the military be interested in negotiating to take them [Rohingya refugees] back when it was the one that forced them to leave for the military regime?’ The New Humanitarian Thomas Kean Senior Consultant, Myanmar & Bangladesh 10 May 2022 It’s really quite striking how much this defense effort has roots in [the Ukrainian] civil society. There are little networks of people who can buy almost anything, short of heavy weaponry. New York Times Simon Schlegel Senior Analyst, Ukraine 14 November 2022 Moscow also has leverage over Türkiye in other conflict zones such as Syria and the South Caucasus, as well as a vested interest in driving a wedge between Turkey and its NATO allies. Bloomberg Nigar Göksel Project Director, Türkiye 14 February 2023 [Nicaraguan President Ortega] would prefer to revert to a steady, low-level authoritarian government in which there are perhaps none of the more visible forms of abuses but continuing political control. Los Angeles Times Ivan Briscoe Program Director, Latin America and Caribbean 13 February 2023 [The gangs in Haiti are] running out of tools to control people. They extort, but there’s only so much money that can be extorted from people that are really poor. AP Renata Segura Deputy Program Director, Latin America and Caribbean 18 October 2022 As far as the U.S. and Europeans are concerned, Tehran’s positions on a couple of issues pretty much closed the door on JCPOA [Iran nuclear deal] negotiations in early September. Jerusalem Post Naysan Rafati Senior Analyst, Iran 5 July 2022 Given the Red Sea's strategic nature as a vital transport route; this [oil spill] can only further internationalise the Yemen war, which already became more complex due to outside involvement. Middle East Eye) Joost Hiltermann Program Director, Middle East and North Africa 14 October 2022 Israel and one of its neighbors [Lebanon] - a neighbor that doesn't officially recognize Israel - have come to a constructive solution for a conflict. And that's historic. DW Heiko Wimmen Project Director, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon 13 March 2023 We can see a de-escalation in the regional layer of the [Saudi-Iranian] conflict. It is a multi-layered conflict, with domestic and regional causes, not just a proxy war Financial Times Ahmed Nagi Senior Analyst, Yemen 29 September 2022 Israeli security interests are best served by Lebanon's economy being rebuilt rather than the crisis getting worse. BBC News David Wood Senior Analyst, Lebanon 9 January 2023 You see a lower operation tempo, what you might call GWOT-lite, but continuity in terms of deployments or even some increases in places in Africa. GRID Brian Finucane Senior Adviser, U.S. 4 November 2022 [U.S.] sanctions still have serious collateral impacts, which solutions like Treasury licenses do not fully address. The New Republic Delaney Simon Senior Analyst, U.S. Program 21 March 2022 No matter what happens next, the disruption wrought by Russia’s invasion will keep commodity prices high for the year. The Globe and Mail Champa Patel Consultant Related Tags More for you