With reprisals continuing against Tuaregs in Libya, similar reports are now emerging from regime-controlled Mali after the Tuareg uprising in the country’s north. But supposedly liberated “Azawad” provides no refuge, as Islamist factions vie for power.
As the Friends of Yemen meeting in Riyadh concentrates on security issues, the economic chaos of the past year of unrest and revolution, coupled with diminishing oil stocks, has created a humanitarian crisis, with 44% of the population undernourished.
An AQAP suicide bomber killed more than 90 Yemeni troops as they practiced for a parade in the capital Sana’a, two days after a US drone strike killed two presumed AQAP operatives. Fighting in southern Yemen has killed hundreds over the past week.
After a week of clashes in Tripoli between pro- and anti-Assad Sunni factions, fighting spread to Beirut when a Sunni cleric and anti-Assad opposition leader was killed by government troops at a checkpoint.
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights are demanding action following the torture-slayings of several reporters and photographers across Mexico in recent weeks.
Amid new massacres—49 mutilated bodies found on a roadside in Nuevo León, another 15 along a highway in Jalisco—Mexican federal authorities have finally detained high-ranking military officers in an investigation of cartel collaboration.
Campesinos from Honduras’ sprawling and rugged department of Olancho protested outside the national electric company in Tegucigalpa to demand cancellation of the Patuca III hydro-electic project until land rights in the area have been clarified.
Miskito Indians in Honduras burned down government offices in angry protests over a DEA helicopter raid they say killed innocent villagers in a fishing boat. The fracas comes as the Pentagon has established three new bases in Honduras.
The Israel Corporation, with holdings in the energy sector across South and Central America, has especially targeted Peru for massive expansion—but found its holdings in Bolivia expropriated in President Evo Morales’ nationalization of the grid.
The Asháninka indigenous people helped beat back the now-resurgent Shining Path in Peru’s ApurĂmac-Ene River Valley, but now oppose a government hydro-electric mega-project that would flood their traditional territories.
Two ministers have resigned and the army chief has been sacked after charges that Peru’s armed forced abandoned stranded troops in a guerilla-controlled jungle. Local indigenous residents now charge a “dirty war” is being carried out in the zone.
Hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced by fighting in northern Mali and dozens have been subjected to arbitrary detention, extra-judicial executions or sexual violence including rape, Amnesty International reports.
