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AfricanLoft
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Rwanda: World Bank Finances $24million Broadband Networks
The World Bank has announced that it has approved $24 million for a program that will see Rwanda develop her national capacity...
 
<em>the8thcircle</em>
the8thcircle posted a blog entry
Lost in translation: the German-American relationship (guest blogger)
Following the first guest post by Mayia on the question of gender equality and genuine democracy, I am pleased to introduce to...
 
VHPEditor
VHPEditor posted a blog entry
The Balkans, Russia: Veljko Kadijevic
Greater Surbiton writes about general Veljko Kadijevic's new Russian citizenship and the unlikely prospects of delivering...
 
VHPEditor
VHPEditor posted a blog entry
Russia, Iran: Obama's Stance
“If elected president of the US, senator Barack Obama would not trade eastern European security for Russian help on...
 
Dave Cole
Dave Cole posted a blog entry
A brief note on Afghanistan
The UK’s commander in Helmand, Brigadier Mark Carleton-Smith, has said that we shouldn’t expect a decisive military...
 
Rebecca M
Rebecca M posted a blog entry
Afghanistan: UN Security Council Report
SunLeaf writes that the newly released UN Security Council report on Afghanistan is highlighting a number of issues including...
 
VHPEditor
VHPEditor posted a blog entry
China milk scandal and Southeast Asia
Like the rest of the world, the China milk scandal has shocked Southeast Asian countries. China is the major trading partner of...
 
Rebecca M
Rebecca M posted a blog entry
China milk scandal and Southeast Asia
Like the rest of the world, the China milk scandal has shocked Southeast Asian countries. China is the major trading partner of...
 
<em>the8thcircle</em>
the8thcircle posted a blog entry
It’s official: Merkel draws NATO line
By now hardly a surprise, German Chancellor Angela Merkel drew the line on where NATO will or will not expand (via Wall Street...
 
bpittard
bpittard posted a blog entry
J. Jegathesan. Part of The Secret Swami’s Cover Up
Although it may at first be difficult to credit that one with such a high profile in international finance and quasi diplomacy,...
 
VHPEditor
VHPEditor posted a blog entry
India: Nuclear deal with USA
Santosh at Über Desi discusses the significance of the India-US nuclear deal.
 
Rebecca M
Rebecca M posted a blog entry
India: Nuclear deal with USA
Santosh at Über Desi discusses the significance of the India-US nuclear deal.
 
Jean-Baptiste Perrin
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China: Giving a hand to rescue U.S?
The sweeping financial crisis that strikes U.S has brought a debate in the country and its congress whether the government should intervene and rescue the Wall Street, or even the entire economy. And It is not the only country pondering on a rescue...
 
VHPEditor
VHPEditor posted a blog entry
China: Giving a hand to rescue U.S?
Now, the financial crisis originated from U.S is going to sweep the globe. As the closest trade partner of U.S, China is...
 
Rebecca M
Rebecca M posted a blog entry
China: Giving a hand to rescue U.S?
Now, the financial crisis originated from U.S is going to sweep the globe. As the closest trade partner of U.S, China is...
 
AfricanLoft
AfricanLoft posted a blog entry
Ghana: Underwhelming Close of the 6th Session of ACP Summit
I came in some twenty minutes ago to see President Kufuor and a mini-phalanx of diplomats leaving this frightfully-chilling...
 
AfricanLoft
AfricanLoft posted a blog entry
Ghana: EPAs Dominate Agenda on Final Day of 6 ACP Summit
I think it might be stretching it a bit to think that expectations might be raised. Currently sitting at the press centre,...
 
clearthought
clearthought posted a blog entry
How much longer can the US remain a superpower?
Article worth taking a lot at. Takes into account the opinion of many international relations heavyweights.American...
 
AfricanLoft
AfricanLoft posted a blog entry
Ghana: Opening Ceremony of 6th Summit of ACP Group in Accra
It is 10h23, and the ACP Secretary-General Sir John Kaputin is about to make his speech. He says it is a priviledge and an...
 
Rebecca M
Rebecca M posted a blog entry
Cuba: Food Prices
In an effort to counter rising food prices resulting from hurricane-related shortages, the Cuban government has frozen food...
 
VHPEditor
VHPEditor posted a blog entry
Cuba: Food Prices
In an effort to counter rising food prices resulting from hurricane-related shortages, the Cuban government has frozen food...
 
AVeryBritishDude
AVeryBritishDude posted a blog entry
Poor wittle me. Kim Jong-Il ILL
Pocket sized dictator and “Great” Leader Kim Jong Il is apparently feeling a little “tired” reports the only North...
 
AfricanLoft
AfricanLoft posted a blog entry
AFRICOM Starts Operation. “It would Bolster Africa’s Security Situation” - Expert [podcast]
The United States Africa Command (AFRICOM) becomes fully operational and will take over all U.S military operations in Africa....
 
anne m
anne m posted a blog entry
we're [potentially] screwed
some think it ridiculous to live half a world away and be so invested in the outcome of an election in which we have no say....
 
AfricanLoft
AfricanLoft posted a blog entry
African Farmers to Benefit from $76 million Public-Private Initiative
“Purchases for Progress”, a “new public-private initiative is being launched by two of the world’s...
 
Pasir Ris P
Pasir Ris P posted a blog entry
Sovereignty vovereignty
..and violations thereofOver at Five Rupees, Ahsan has an excellent take on the goings-on between the United States and...
 
Jean-Baptiste Perrin
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Ukraine: How Russian is the Crimea?
The 8th Circle discusses the Crimea and Ukrainian fears of a Russian secessionist movement, arguing that the peninsula could be compared to other European regions, which today could not be imagined seceding. He also refers to a new book on this theme by...
 
Pragmatic
Pragmatic posted a blog entry
Indian troops in Afghanistan
…as a basis for EU-India engagement (and in India’s national interest).In the lead up to the EU-India summit that...
 
Pasir Ris P
Pasir Ris P posted a blog entry
The trouble with Europe
…is that it only wants to do the easy stuffIn an op-ed in European Voice, Richard Gowan argues that “it may be...
9 days ago Current Issues | Topics: Foreign..., Afghanistan, EU, Europe
 
Pragmatic
Pragmatic posted a blog entry
…to save Pakistan
It is a well-known fact that the new President of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari is fond of most things English, mansions in rural...
 
Pasir Ris P
Pasir Ris P posted a blog entry
My op-ed in Mint: There is no one China policy
Competition in zero-sum games, co-operation in positive-sum gamesMy op-ed in today’s Mint is a synthesis of several...
9 days ago Current Issues | Topics: Economy, Foreign..., Security, Asia
 
Pasir Ris P
Pasir Ris P posted a blog entry
Praveen Swami’s book on the secret jihad in Kashmir
The Indian edition of a must-read bookPraveen Swami’s 2006 book India, Pakistan and the Secret Jihad: The covert war in...
10 days ago Current Issues | Topics: Foreign..., Security, books, history
 
Minhaaj
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Pakistan’s Faith in Its New Leader Is Shaken
Pakistan is struggling with a financial meltdown and terrorism that has hurt confidence in the government.
 
adiarifin
adiarifin posted a blog entry
MA Scholarships in Politics and International Relations
Belgium - MA Scholarships Available for January 2009 University of Kent’s Brussels School of International Studies
 
AfricanLoft
AfricanLoft posted a blog entry
Fight Against Malaria gets Big Push
Malaria prevention advocates and public health folks have a reason to be elated: Buoyed by new data showing malaria rates are...
 
AfricanLoft
AfricanLoft posted a blog entry
Liberia’s First Biomass-powered Electricity Plant gets OPIC Dollars
Buchanan Renewables, B.V., has announced that its Board of Directors of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) has...
 
Pragmatic
Pragmatic posted a blog entry
India at the high table
The French President Nicolas Sarkozy in his talk with the reporters at New York:We cannot wait any longer to turn the G8 into...
 
Denijane
Denijane posted a blog entry
International relations, september, 2008
In this particularly interesting edition: China as an international investor: in a class of its ownTNK-BP settlement welcomed...
 
jugnu
jugnu posted a blog entry
The most corrupt countries list
Somalia remains rooted to the bottom of a global corruption index that also features Iraq and Afghanistan among the...
 
Pasir Ris P
Pasir Ris P posted a blog entry
A very unGandhian land
India didn’t start projecting power yesterdayWhen you read an article that goes “Land of Gandhi Asserts Itself as...
 
Pragmatic
Pragmatic posted a blog entry
India - China …and the US
In a series of articles and columns last week, The Telegraph (UK) has covered the delicate relationship existing between India...
 
Travis G
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Medvedev Promises Georgia Enclaves Protection
In a speech Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is to deliver on Thursday, Ms. Rice will challenge Russia in some of the most stinging language she has used in office.
 
Pasir Ris P
Pasir Ris P posted a blog entry
Gilani and the genie
The story of the two wishesThe farce continues to remain with Yusuf Raza Gilani. The hapless Pakistani prime minister told his...
 
AVeryBritishDude
AVeryBritishDude posted a blog entry
Tired Old Men
Queuing for my Visa in the "Peoples Democratic Republic of Laos" (there are three lies in this nations' title, see if you...
 
AfricanLoft
AfricanLoft posted a blog entry
Horn of Africa Piracy Spurs International Action
Maritime specialists say a surge in pirate attacks on ships between Somalia and Yemen is affecting global commerce and they are...