By Yiming Zhong Edited by Muhammad Hani Ahsan Graphic by Norie Wright #Science and Technology #Economic “The first sound that Yaroslav Vinokurov, 24, heard in the early morning was the wailing of the air-raid alarm in the darkness and he continued his work, given that alarms sound nearly every day. But soon machine-gun fire echoed… Read more »
In 2004, 400 members of the indigenous Anuak tribe from the Gambella region in Ethiopia were massacred by the Ethiopian military. The Ethiopian government began a campaign of violence, including rape, torture, and extrajudicial killings, in the hopes of forcing the more than 4 million inhabitants of the Gambella region to relocate “voluntarily”. In pursuit… Read more »
With the anticipated date for the US withdrawal from Afghanistan coming closer and its increasing entanglement in dealing with the threat of ISIS, another glitch in Pakistan-US relations doesn’t seem totally improbable. The recent release of a Pentagon report accusing Pakistan of harboring militants casts a serious blow to the already confused state of relations,… Read more »