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Museveni: Qaddafi Bad, Intervention Worse
Despite past disagreements with the Libyan leader over the pace of African integration and the awkward fact that Qaddafi provided support for Uganda’s murderous former leader, Idi Amin, Ugandan...
View ArticleTiger Mom has nothing on Dear Leader
Not really sure what to make of this bizarre video of virtuoso guitar playing, North Korean six-year-olds. The skill level is amazing, though one has to dig deep in any attempt to understand the...
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AU Mission in Somalia Gets Boost
As African Union peacekeepers continue to come under attack in Somalia, the mission there, known as AMISOM, received two pieces of good news this week. First off, Uganda and Burundi, offered to send...
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Obama to Partners: Share the Burden
Bill O’Reilly said it was logical. Donald Trump said it made no sense. Sarah Palin called it disappointing. Regardless of one’s opinion of President Obama’s speech last night on the U.S. military...
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Cote D'Ivoire: Une autre intervention
Libyan officials aren’t the only ones seeking to defect to neighboring countries these days. Like the Qadaffi clan in Tripoli, the regime of Cote D’Ivoire’s Laurent Gbagbo has come under...
View ArticleWebcast Today: AU Chair to Address U.S. Institute of Peace
African Union Chairman Jean Ping will address the U.S. Institute of Peace today following meetings with top officials in Washington. The address, which is expected to touch on hot button issues like...
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AU Chairman: ICC Singles Out African Leaders
The African Union Commission Chairman, Jean Ping, yesterday told an audience in Washington that the International Criminal Court continues to target African leaders unfairly, accusing the body of...
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U.S.-AU Disconnect on Libya
Top officials from the African Union visited Washington last week to discuss relations between the U.S. and the emerging pan-African body. It was the second such meeting, and a joint statement was...
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30th Anniversary of Bob Marley's Death Marked Around the World
The 30th anniversary of the death of one of the world’s most politically influential musicians was marked around the world yesterday, highlighted by the opening of an exhibition on the reggae singer’s...
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Africa Day
“This conference cannot close without adopting a single African Charter. We cannot leave here without having created a single African organization…. If we fail in this, we will have shirked our...
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India Boosts Ties with Africa, AU
This week the second ever Africa-India Summit took place, with New Delhi signaling that it was committed to doing business with the continent and supporting both national and regional development....
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Mali Explainer: A Q&A with Gregory Mann
In this week’s foreign policy debate between President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, terrorism in the northern part of the West African nation of Mali was brought up unexpectedly. FPA’s Robert Nolan...
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Myanmar on Edge
As history tells it, the father of modern day Myanmar, Gen. Aung San, was assassinated in 1947 not long after the country gained its independence from Britain as he sought to forge a democracy among...
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5 Foreign Policy Challenges Obama Can Tackle From Home
While foreign policy had a brief moment in the sun during this past election cycle, Americans are still clearly, and rightly, preoccupied with the challenges we face here at home. A CBS poll taken...
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How Women Made Their Mark on the World In 2012
As a producer of global affairs television programming for the better part of the past decade, I’ve long been dismayed by the fact that the pool of guests we’re often forced to draw from is so heavily...
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