From iWire, April 10: Google has joined forces with the US Holocaust Memorial Museum to create a visual record of the attrocities that began in the Darfur region of Sudan in 2003. The Crisis in Darfur project has assembled photographs,… Read moreOnline documentation of Darfur holocaust
Halliburton announced April 9 all of the commitments of its subsidiary working in Iran have been completed and it no longer has operations in the country. In January 2005, the company announced it would not accept new contracts in Iran… Read moreHalliburton quits Iran
The Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) is meeting in Doha, Qatar, to discuss the possibility of forming a body that would represent gas producers and exporters in the global market, with some leaders calling for a cartel that would function… Read moreNext: global gas cartel?
Ethiopia admitted for the first time April 10 that it detained 41 suspected terrorists from 17 countries. The statement comes a week after the Associated Press reported that terror suspects had been transferred from Kenya to Somalia and then to… Read moreSomalia “renditions”: Ethiopia admits it
Amnesty International condemns Egypt’s record on torture and illegal detention in a new report, and calls on other countries to abandon diplomatic “no torture” deals with Cairo. Egypt’s record on torture recently made headlines after police officers raped a 21-year-old… Read moreAmnesty International blasts Egypt, “rendition”
Chad’s government reports a rebel convoy of “more than 200 vehicles with armed elements” attacked from Sudanese territory April 9, resulting in heavy fighting that has left “many” dead. (AlJazeera, April 9) Recent violence in eastern Chad has killed hundreds… Read moreChad: displacement crisis escalates
Forces from the separatist Somali state of Somaliland and neighboring autonomous Puntland clashed April 9 over a disputed strip of land along their shared border in the Sanag region. “Puntland forces attacked the town of Dahar around 8:00 this morning,”… Read morePuntland clashes with Somaliland
Nine Algerian soldiers and at least four Islamist insurgents were killed in clashes after militants ambushed an army patrol in the southwestern province of Ain Defla, 150 kilometers from Algiers April 7. Government troops, backed by helicopters, are searching for… Read moreMaghreb: dialectic of terror continues
Fighting between the government and Sh’i’te insurgents in Yemen’s northern mountains has killed 25 soldiers and 20 guerillas over the last five days. The government has set up camps to shelter about 10,000 people displaced by the violence. Sporadic clashes… Read moreSectarian war rocks Yemen
From Newsday, April 8: Two hit-and-runs in two different boroughs A pedestrian in Manhattan and a motorcyclist in Brooklyn were each critically hurt after hit-and-run drivers struck them Saturday, police said. The Manhattan incident happened after a 24-year-old man had… Read moreWHY WE FIGHT
An Ethiopian judge dismissed charges of attempted genocide and treason against 111 people arrested after 2005 election protests. Among those cleared were journalists and publishers. Amnesty International called the charges “absurd,” and adopted the accused as “prisoners of conscience.” The… Read moreEthiopia: journalists cleared of “genocide”
Three months after the White House successfully pressed the United Nations to impose strict sanctions on North Korea over that country’s nuclear test, the Bush administration “allowed” Ethiopia to complete a secret arms purchase from Pyongyang in what appears to… Read moreNYT: US “allowed” North Korea arms sale to Ethiopia
