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Our dogs were sent reindeer antlers in the post this week. As you will see in the picture, Molly (the miniature bull terrier) loves them. She adores to dress up. However, Matilda (the bulldog) doesn't. She ate hers.
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I presented brief remarks on African Union (AU) peace operations at a national security seminar held by George Washington University on 7 December 2012. My remarks focus on the AU peace operations architecture and assessment of the AU's efforts so far to deal with conflict.
Click here to read the remarks.
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Here's your look at the Spanish international trailer for the new Tom Cruise sci-fi spectacular Oblivion directed by Joseph Kosinski who directed Tron: Legacy set to be released next April from Universal.. You don't get a real good sense of what the film is going to be about, but according to the official synopsis, Cruise plays one of the last "few drone repairmen stationed on earth. ...whose soaring existence is brought crashing down when he rescuese a beautiful stranger from a downed spacecraft. Her arrival triggers a chain of events that forces him to question everything he knows and puts the fate of humanity in his hands." Don't hate it when...
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Seven years ago, the World Bank paid for a road in Bangladesh to be upgraded, but without demanding basic safety features. Now people are dying by the score. Annie Kelly reports from a killer highway
We saw the bus before we saw the rickshaw. Abandoned on the side of the road, its engine was still running. A dent on the paint-scratched bumper was the only evidence of the head-on collision that had happened just 15 minutes earlier.
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There were these heavenly testing cakes served on silver platter in a "regional party". Both Eritreans and Ethiopians were invited to this "All the cakes you can eat" party. But there was one serious problem: the "cookie cutters" that cut the cakes into "serving portions" did it in various shapes that look like the maps of Ethiopia, Eritrea, Amhara, Tigray, Somali, Afar, etc. Of course, it was all done in the spirit of regional brotherhood ... But given such a visual and tactile pressure on the guests to ignore the non-patriotic callings of their stomach, you can easily imagine how wrong the party went, with many guests stoically refusing to eat some cakes or taking malicious bites of particular shaped cakes for various "nationalistic" reasons.
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When debates opened today, December 7, 2012, around 4.45 PM, on the Bill extending the mandate of Members of Parliament for three more months, Hon Ayah Paul Abine raised his name tag among other Members of Parliament, indicating that he...
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Under-fire Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi was ready to "modify" his controversial November 22 decree, the country's PM said on Saturday. The announcement came after Egypt's powerful army urged crisis talks to avert 'disaster'.
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Here are a few things we know about Ghana's 2012 elections. It's going to be close. With 168 of 275 constituencies reporting, incumbent John Mahama has 49.83% of the vote and his chief rival Nana Akufo-Addo has 48.68% of votes. That's lots closer than polls, which predicted a victory for Mahama, had been suggesting. Given [...]
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The moment the word got out this thursday morning that Rwanda's Minister of Gender and Family Promotion, Aloysia Inyumba, had died at the age of fourty-eight, twitter lit up. President Paul Kagame wrote 'A.Inyumba will be greatly missed & remembered among others for her Liberation and Gender credentials/effort(s)! May her Soul rest in Peace'. UNDP Rwanda director Auke Lootsma wrote: 'Mourning the loss of Hon. Aloisea Inyumba, a dear friend and great human being who gave all she got to her country. May you rest in peace.' Director of the Gender Team in the Bureau for Development Policy of the UNDP, Winnie Byanyima, wife of Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye wrote: 'We mourn the loss of a dear Sister, one of Rwanda's greatest patriots, Hon Aloisea Inyumba. A senior member of the RPF, ...
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Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn in an interview with Al-Jazeera on 5 December 2012 said he is willing to go to Asmara to hold face-to-face talks with Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki over the deadlocked border dispute. This follows an offer the previous month by South Sudan to mediate the dispute.
It is not clear whether this is an opening for serious talks or posturing. In any event, there has not yet been any public response from the Eritrean side.
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Under-fire Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi was ready to "modify" his controversial November 22 decree, the country's PM said on Saturday. The announcement came after Egypt's powerful army urged crisis talks to avert 'disaster'.
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Here are a few things we know about Ghana's 2012 elections. It's going to be close. With 168 of 275 constituencies reporting, incumbent John Mahama has 49.83% of the vote and his chief rival Nana Akufo-Addo has 48.68% of votes. That's lots closer than polls, which predicted a victory for Mahama, had been suggesting. Given [...]
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Our mission as digital humanitarians was to deliver a detailed dataset of pictures and videos (posted on Twitter) which depict damage and flooding following the Typhoon. An overview of this digital response is available here. The task of our United Nations colleagues at ... Continue reading →
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US officials have confirmed the arrest of a suspect in the deadly September attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya, media reports said Friday. Egyptian authorities detained the former member of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad in the past week.
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