Africa
Eritrea is the most censored country in the world, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. (North Korea and Saudi Arabia are second and third.) On September 18, 2001, Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki (in power since 1993) banned seven independent newspapers and imprisoned 11 senior government officials. Five independent journalists arrested in 2001 may have died while in […]
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Last week, the German government handed over the remains of Namibian men and women killed in what has been called “the first genocide of the 20th century.” Between 1904 and 1908, German imperial soldiers slaughtered tens of thousands of members of the Herero and Nama indigenous groups. The violence was prompted by an anti-colonial uprising in 1904that […]
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The United States has military outposts and 1,200 special forcesin many parts of Africa, and about 6,000 military personnel overall on the continent, the majority (nearly 4,000) of which are at Camp Lemonnier in Djibouti. Now, following the killing of four U.S. soldiers battling Islamist militants in Niger in 2017, the Defense Department is considering shutting down operations in […]
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