It was a mixed welcome when the 279 schoolgirls were released after their kidnapping from a boarding school in the northwestern Zamfara state of Nigeria. Hundreds of girls dressed in light blue hijabs and barefoot were sitting at the Government House office quietly talking to one another. After the [...]
The people of Myanmar (Burma) had only begun to taste freedom in the recent years after five decades of military rule, when the powerful military Generals claimed fraud in the recent electoral results. The democratic government is led by Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi. The military [...]
Once again, Myanmar (formerly Burma) is being led and controlled by the military forces who seized power in Monday’s coup d’etat, following the country’s parliamentary election. The election overwhelmingly reelected and affirmed the democratic leadership. Aung San Suu Kyi, the face of democracy in the country was arrested along [...]
Just as Yemen was preparing to move forward with a power-sharing government, chaos erupts as three explosions at the Aden airport threaten to annihilate the new government officials as they disembark their plane. Saudi Arabia had brokered a peace deal, bringing together the Houthi rebels who control much of [...]
The recent tit-for-tat confrontations between Iran and the United States leaves the world in a state of uncertainty. Will it escalate, or will it die down? The sudden surprise assassination of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani immediately drew retaliation against American troops stationed in Iraq with missiles fired at two [...]
