By Abukar Arman | for Foreign Policy Association, Since Somalia’s independence in 1960, its relationship with the U.S. has been—for lack of a better metaphor—on a roller coaster that travels up and down dangerous steeps and performs sudden inversions that turn everything upside down. In other words, due to lack of formal and sustainable policy […]
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By Dr. Samuel Mahaffy, Herman Cohen’s post on Eritrea – Ethiopia (“The Red Sea Is Slipping into Total Arab Control” December 28, 2015 ) deserves a thoughtful response. In the face of deliberate mis-information campaigns against Eritrea, Cohen has had the courage to invite the world to consider positive engagement with Eritrea. His premise, that […]
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By Dr. Samuel Mahaffy, “How do we cope with the human rights atrocities committed by our best friends?” “Such is the dilemma of US policy in Africa” (p. 51). Herman Cohen brings forward a refreshingly honest account of US foreign policy in Africa. This is a surprisingly candid account of Cohen’s encounter with ‘post-colonial’ African […]
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By Thomas C Mountain, THE Obama administration must be held responsible for a series of failed or nearly failed states on the African continent. Recently Burundi has been in the news but it could just as easily be Nigeria, Mali or the Central African Republic. Whether the calamities that have befallen these neocolonialist constructions have been intentional […]
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By TesfaNews, A LEADING European think-tank and a center for political events is planning to organize two very important events on Eritrea’s Horn of Africa Policy next month. The Bruno Kreisky Forum for International Dialogue invited Mr. Yemane Gebreab, Presidential Adviser and Head of Political Affairs for Eritrea’s leading political party, PFDJ, for a presentation on […]
Continue ReadingBy H.E. Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu (Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey), On August 19, 2011, under the shining sun of Africa, the plane carrying Prime Minister Erdoğan, his family and a large delegation composed of the different segments of Turkish State and society landed in Mogadishu. This was one of the first international […]
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