By Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Kulwant Singh, Dr. David Leffler and David Shapiro In the past 20 years, 18 African nations…
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US Secretary of State John Kerry warned Thursday of a risk of genocide in South Sudan if the country’s four-month-old civil war is not stopped. “There are very disturbing leading indicators of the kind of ethnic, tribal, targeted nationalistic killings…
French engineering group Alstom said on Sunday that it has suspended trading in its shares as expectations grew for a possible bidding war between industrial giants General Electric and Siemens. The announcement came after French President Francois…
Pro-Russian Ukrainian rebels holding captive an international team of military observers from the OSCE said Sunday they are “prisoners of war” and brought them before the media in a news conference. The group of eight men, all Europeans, were part of…
The Group of Seven rich countries agreed Saturday to impose new sanctions on Russia over the crisis in Ukraine, after Kiev accused Moscow of seeking to trigger a “third world war”. The G7 nations, in a joint statement, said they would “move swiftly…
The release of the Nigerian civil war film “Half of a Yellow Sun”, which had been set to open in cinemas nationwide on Friday, has been delayed by the country’s censorship board. The film based on the eponymous best-selling novel by Chimamanda Ngozi…
For Oscar-nominated British actor Chiwetel Ejiofor, starring in a film about Nigeria’s civil war was “incredibly personal”, as the conflict both affected close relatives and determined the country where he was born. His own grandfather had lived through…
Wrapped in a purple shawl, Mirjan wanders downcast among the ruins of the Islamabad slum where she lived, newly demolished. The authorities in Pakistan’s leafy, affluent capital have declared war on the slums, largely populated by Christians and Afghan…
Rebel gunmen in South Sudan massacred “hundreds” of civilians in ethnic killings when they captured the oil town of Bentiu last week, the UN said Monday, one of the worst reported atrocities in the war-torn nation. In the main mosque alone, “more than…
US Vice President Joe Biden was to begin a two-day visit to Ukraine on Monday amid Russian “outrage” over a deadly weekend shootout in the rebel east that shattered a fragile Easter truce. Washington has warned Moscow that time is running out for the…