Africa

HRW: Janjaweed raid Chad

Revelations by Human Rights Watch May 26 that Darfur’s Janjaweed have overrun villages in Chad. The rapidly shifting alliances are dizzying here. On the face of it, this is simple: Chad’s government has backed the Darfur guerillas and this is… Read moreHRW: Janjaweed raid Chad

Africa

Darfur: glimmer of hope?

The April 30 march in Washington, organized by the Save Darfur Coalition, brought out some heroes of the left, like George Clooney, but also some that the hard left loves to hate, like Elie Wiesel and Samantha Power. While policy-makers… Read moreDarfur: glimmer of hope?

Africa

Northern Nigeria explodes

The Niger Delta, in Nigeria’s south, has long been beset by ethnic struggles over distribution of the region’s oil wealth. Now the north, where Muslim-Christian tensions have long simmered, is boiling over—ostensibly over the cartoon controversy, but one wonders what… Read moreNorthern Nigeria explodes