Africa

Robert Fisk: It took decades for truth to be revealed in Algeria. How long will it take Syria? Algeria’s ‘timid’ historians shy away from revealing the ugly reality about war

Major General Jamaa Jamaa was not a popular man in Beirut. One of Syria’s most senior intelligence officers in Lebanon until the withdrawal of Bashar al-Assad’s troops in 2005, he was headquartered in the run-down Beau Rivage Hotel in west Beirut and also in the Bekaa town of Anjaar, where […]

Kenya CCTV ‘shows soldiers looting’

Source: BBC.COM Security camera footage has emerged which appears to show Kenyan security forces looting goods during last month’s siege of the Westgate mall. In the footage, some Kenyan soldiers can be seen carrying white shopping bags, while others appear to take white boxes from a mobile phone store. At […]

Assessing the Slave Trade

The Voyages Database The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database comprises nearly 35,000 individual slaving expeditions between 1514 and 1866. Records of the voyages have been found in archives and libraries throughout the Atlantic world. They provide information about vessels, enslaved peoples, slave traders and owners, and trading routes. A variable (Source) […]

Egypt: Relations with United States in ‘turmoil’

Source: TOI: CAIRO: Egypt’s foreign minister said on Wednesday that relations between his country andthe United States are in “turmoil” followingWashington’s decision to suspend delivery of tanks, helicopters and fighter jets to Egypt. The suspension, announced last week, came in response to the unrest in the wake of the July 3 military coup that […]