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Archives for January 2016
Author Profiles The ‘Traumatized People’ Living In The World’s Largest Refugee Camp
January 4, 2016 | NPR Founded in 1991 as a temporary shelter for Somalis, the Dadaab complex in Kenya now houses nearly half a million refugees. Ben Rawlence profiles nine of its residents in his new book, City of Thorns. TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. The Syrian refugee crisis has increased awareness of the desperate situations many … [Read more...] about Author Profiles The ‘Traumatized People’ Living In The World’s Largest Refugee Camp
UN peacekeepers in CAR hit with fresh sex abuse allegations
2016-01-06 | FRANCE24 UN peacekeepers are facing fresh allegations that they sexually abused four young girls in the Central African Republic (CAR), the latest in a wave of child rape cases to hit the mission. The United Nations said on Tuesday it had informed three countries of the claims and asked them to investigate their soldiers serving in the MINUSCA mission in Bangui. … [Read more...] about UN peacekeepers in CAR hit with fresh sex abuse allegations
How the Saudi King benefits from a cleric’s execution
Peter Van Buren | 6 January 2016 | REUTERS Why did Saudi Arabia execute Shi’ite cleric Nimr al-Nimr now? The Saudis have had Nimr in custody since 2012, sentencing him to death in 2014. The cleric has been a vocal critic of Saudi Arabia’s ruling royal family for years, going as far as threatening Shi’ite secession in the minority’s eastern homeland in … [Read more...] about How the Saudi King benefits from a cleric’s execution
Iran, Saudi Arabia and the Israeli angle
Herb Keinon | 05 January 2016 | Jerusalem Post Jerusalem on Monday was closely monitoring the rapid breakdown in relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia, knowing full well that ripples from that crisis will surely be felt in Israel. Yaakov Amidror, the former head of the National Security Council and, before that, of Military Intelligence, told The Jerusalem Post there … [Read more...] about Iran, Saudi Arabia and the Israeli angle
The Incredible Thing We Do During Conversations
Ed Yong | 4 Jan 2016 | The Atlantic When we take turns speaking, we chime in after a culturally universal short gap. One of the greatest human skills becomes evident during conversations. It’s there, not in what we say but in what we don’t. It’s there in the pauses, the silences, the gaps between the end of my words and the start of yours. When we talk we … [Read more...] about The Incredible Thing We Do During Conversations
Pentagon shutters African drone base, moves aircraft to other hotspots
Craig Whitlock | 4 January 2016 | The Washington Post The Pentagon has closed a drone base in Africa and moved the unmanned aircraft to other locations as it strains to cope with a surge in demand for drones from military commanders fighting the Islamic State and other militant groups. The U.S. military has stopped flying unarmed Reaper drones from an airfield in … [Read more...] about Pentagon shutters African drone base, moves aircraft to other hotspots
U.S. Struggles to Explain Alliance With Saudis
David E. Sanger | 4 Jan. 2016 | The New York Times WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Monday confronted the fundamental contradiction in its increasingly tense relationship with Saudi Arabia. It could not bring itself, at least in public, to condemn the execution of a dissident cleric who challenged the royal family, for fear of undermining the fragile Saudi leadership … [Read more...] about U.S. Struggles to Explain Alliance With Saudis
French geologist Alain Gachet says new water divining technique could alleviate drought all over the world
John Lichfield | 4 January 2016 | The Independent Having found an underground lake the size of Windermere in Kenya, Alain Gachet tells John Lichfield how his radar scanning technique can reveal immense reservoirs of water under the most barren and impoverished territories on Earth “And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice: and the water … [Read more...] about French geologist Alain Gachet says new water divining technique could alleviate drought all over the world
The Death of Fear
Special programme | 16 Dec 2015 AL JAZEERA ENGLISH Al Jazeera examines how the death of a Tunisian street vendor led to a wave of uprisings across the Arab world. This film was first broadcast on Al Jazeera English in March 2011. On December 17, 2010, Mohammed Bouazizi set himself on fire in the small provincial Tunisian town of Sidi Bouzid. According to his … [Read more...] about The Death of Fear
ISIS is the World’s Largest Muslim Country
Edward Delman | 3 January 2016 | The Atlantic Why are so few Indonesians joining the Islamic State? In recent days, rumblings of ISIS have reached the country with the largest Muslim population in the world. Security forces in Indonesia, which is home to some 200 million Muslims, launched a manhunt for the militant leader Santoso, who had publicly pledged loyalty to the … [Read more...] about ISIS is the World’s Largest Muslim Country