The Algeria-backed Polisario separatists have once again failed to practice their “political piracy” as they did in South Africa last May. Last week, it was in Latin America, precisely in Uruguay, that the Polisario attempted to incite a Uruguayan court to order the seizure of a 300-ton shipment of Moroccan phosphate. But, although Uruguay backs […]
Six Nile upstream countries have ratified a deal dubbed The Nile River Basin Cooperative Framework (CFA) Agreement, which officially entered into force on October 13, despite objections by downstream countries: Egypt and Sudan. In a joint statement, Sudan and Egypt urged all Nile Basin states “to restore the integrity of the 1999 Nile Basin Initiative […]
The one persistent feature of Iranian foreign policy since the toppling of the Shah in 1979 was its rather grandiose optimism about its own ascendance to a hegemonic role in the Middle East. The ayatollah’s Islamic Republic never considered the revolution it had kidnapped to turn inward. Instead, the leaders of the Islamic Republic of […]
