Ivory Coast: The potential for large-scale violence seems likely

Experts are not very optimistic about the situation.

North Korea attacks South Korea

What’s next?

How much is the existence of NATO based on the existence of threats?

NATO wants to go global. Or is better to say it is an agenda of Secretary General of NATO Anders Fogh Rasmussen?

U.S., NATO to announce transition strategy in Afghanistan war

By a senior administration official on the condition of anonymity.

Fears of election violence growing in Ivory Coast

By Richard Moncrieff, Africa director at the International Crisis Group.

Is DR Congo better off with UN troops?

MONUC and MONUSCO mission. Failure or success? And how important is for DR Congo the presence of peacekeepers.

Jihadists in Europe. A threat?

German authorities closed last week a Hamburg mosque where 9/11 plotters met. According to magazine Time a 2009 report from German Domestic intelligence estimated that there are 45 jihadists in the city with links to other violent Islamic extremists in Germany and abroad.

Does Naomi Campbell’s testimony matter?

Supermodel said she was given very small dirty-looking stones in 1997 but it failed to proof a clear connection between the diamonds  and Charles Taylor. Former President of Liberia is accused of using illegally mined diamonds to secure weapons for Sierra Leone’s Revolutionary United Front during the 1991-2001 civil war.

Aftermath of attack in Uganda: How strong is Al-Shabaab

The Somali Islamist group Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for the twin blasts which hit the Ugandan capital Kampala, killing 74 people.

Uganda’s nightmare: Joseph Kony and Lord’s Resistance Army

LRA forces are responsible for thousands of causalities, terrorism, torture, mutilation, rape, sexual enslavement, training of child soldiers… According to Human Rights Watch Lord’s Resistance Army killed at least 321 civilians and abducted 250 others, including at least 80 children, during a previously unreported four-day rampage in the Makombo area of northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo in December 2009.