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    A West African Coup’s Potential Ripple Effects

    by  • May 16, 2012 • Africa, Security Council • 0 Comments

    Guinea-Bissau army

    DAKAR, Senegal — The fate of Guinea-Bissau hangs on precariously as regional and international bodies involved in resolving the country’s post-coup crisis, which forestalled a presidential run-off vote, disagree about pace and tactics. The complications from the coup and another recent government overthrow, in Mali, have created unease throughout West Africa, possibly the last place [...]

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    Timbuktu Treasures at Risk

    by  • May 5, 2012 • Africa • 1 Comment

    Sankoré Mosque, Timbuktu, Mali

    The recent military coup in Mali not only severed the country in two, but also put valuable artifacts in the northern ancient city of Timbuktu at risk. The desert enclave, where Islamic civilization thrived centuries ago near the Niger River, was invaded by Tuareg rebels and Islamic extremists soon after the March 22 overthrow. Just [...]

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    A Museum to Honor the Che Guevara of Guinea-Bissau

    by  • May 9, 2012 • Africa • 2 Comments

    Amilcar Cabral House in Bafata, Guinea-Bissau

    BAFATÁ, Guinea-Bissau — On a quiet sandy street in this small town, amid old houses with their paint peeling off, stands one unfittingly polished white and pink building. It’s the newly renovated childhood home of freedom fighter Amílcar Cabral, the Che Guevara of Guinea-Bissau. The house where Cabral lived from his birth, in 1924, to [...]

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    Defending the International Criminal Court From the Outside

    by  • April 30, 2012 • Africa, ICC, International Justice • 0 Comments

    US ambassador for war crimes

    The International Criminal Court‘s judgment against the warlord Thomas Lubanga for conscripting child soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo has confirmed that “a permanent international criminal court is on the job,” Stephen Rapp, ambassador at large for the US State Department, said at Columbia University Law School this month. The Lubanga guilty verdict in [...]

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