tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32089476159866965232024-03-12T18:02:09.793-07:00Strategy ስልት GeopoliticsStrategy ስልት Geopolitics:- Demarche and Method of political malleabilityUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger411125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3208947615986696523.post-29931866606219516472018-07-02T09:07:00.004-07:002018-07-02T09:07:35.697-07:00Landlocked Ethiopia wants to launch a navy, why?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<amp-img alt="H H Commodore Prince Alexander Desta, Deputy Commander of the Imperial Ethiopian Navy, 1971" class="article-image__image i-amphtml-element i-amphtml-layout-responsive i-amphtml-layout-size-defined i-amphtml-layout" height="549" layout="responsive" src="https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/4484/production/_102004571_976_2_imperial_ethiopian_navy_iwm.jpg" srcset="
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<figcaption class="media-caption article-image--has-caption" style="background: rgb(17, 17, 17); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 16px;"><span class="off-screen" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clip: rect(0px, 0px, 0px, 0px); color: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 1px; margin: -1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;">Image caption</span><span class="media-caption__text" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ececec; font-size: 13px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">H H Commodore Prince Alexander Desta was Deputy Commander of the Imperial Ethiopian Navy in 1971</span></figcaption></figure><div class="amp-o-paragraph--bold" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.25rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
When Eritrea gained independence in 1993, Ethiopia suddenly found itself without a coastline and so it took the logical step of disbanding its navy. Now, it is reconsidering its decision and its latest manoeuvres in the region suggest it could be shopping around its neighbourhood to find a naval base it can use.</div>
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Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed recently said on state TV: "We built one of the strongest ground and air force in Africa... we should build our naval force capacity in the future."</div>
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His comments revealed the country's naval ambitions but his plans for how to achieve this goal have not been made public. However, Ethiopia's latest push to enter into deals with its coastal neighbours signals something is afoot.</div>
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What is behind the move?</h2>
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State-linked Fana Broadcasting Corporate quoted Mr Abiy as saying the military reforms should "take into account current fast changing world, socio-economic and political situation in Ethiopia".</div>
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After Ethiopia and Eritrea fought a bitter border war from 1998-2000, there was little chance that Ethiopia could carry on using Eritrea's ports as it had done previously. So it had to find alternatives.</div>
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Ethiopia recently signed a deal to take a stake in the port of Djibouti, which now handles roughly 95% of all its exports and imports.</div>
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It is also connected to its small neighbour by a new 472 mile (759 km) railway line - opened last year - which links the capital Addis Ababa to the port of Doraleh, an extension of the port of Djibouti.</div>
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The railway line has increased the movement of cargo volumes to and from the port to such an extent that at least 70% of all its activity is now Ethiopian trade.</div>
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<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 8px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="amp-o-link" href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-43585814" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-size: 1rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.25rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Could the scramble for military bases in East Africa spark a war</a> ?</li>
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Roba Megerssa Akawak, head of the state-owned Ethiopian Shipping & Logistics Services Enterprise (ESLSE), <a class="amp-o-link" href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-08/landlocked-ethiopia-may-establish-naval-base-at-kenyan-port" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-size: 1rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.25rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">told Bloomberg</a> that Ethiopia was concerned that Djibouti was controlled by foreign naval forces. US, China, Japan and France all have military bases there.</div>
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"We are afraid perhaps in the future that even Djibouti may not have its own say to really decide on its own fate. This is quite a threat to Ethiopia," Mr Roba said.</div>
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He added that a navy would also help protect the 11 Ethiopia commercial ships in a "very volatile" Red Sea area where Ethiopia has other economic interests "and there are conflicting political interests".</div>
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<figcaption class="media-caption article-image--has-caption" style="background: rgb(17, 17, 17); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 16px;"><span class="off-screen" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clip: rect(0px, 0px, 0px, 0px); color: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 1px; margin: -1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;">Image caption</span><span class="media-caption__text" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ececec; font-size: 13px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Prime Minister Abiy has signed deals with neighbouring countries to use their ports</span></figcaption></figure><div class="amp-o-paragraph" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.25rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
These ships are currently based in Djibouti, from where they sail to ports in the Gulf, the Indian sub-continent, China, Korea, Japan, Singapore, South Africa, and Indonesia.</div>
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Ethiopia also still has a civilian maritime institute which trains more than 500 marine engineers and electro-technical officers each year, with plans to train more than 1,000 officers annually.</div>
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According to the <a class="amp-o-link" href="http://www.emticorp.com/emti.html" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-size: 1rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.25rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ethiopian Maritime Institute </a>the graduates have skills and knowledge "needed to succeed in the global shipping industry".</div>
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Building a navy from the ground up is however a different kettle of fish - it would require massive financial investments and a lot of time to train the forces, as well as a base.</div>
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Since coming to power in April, Mr Abiy has also signed deals with Sudan for access to Port Sudan, in a bid to diversify its port outlets and reduce port fees.</div>
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Ethiopia has also agreed a deal with the self-declared Somali state of Somaliland for a 19% stake in the port of Berbera which includes a plan to build a road from its border to the port.</div>
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Eritrea rapprochement</h2>
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Mr Abiy also struck a reconciliation tone in his maiden speech - calling on long-time foe Eritrea to resolve their differences, saying the two countries were "not only intertwined in interests but also in blood".</div>
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<figcaption class="media-caption article-image--has-caption" style="background: rgb(17, 17, 17); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 16px;"><span class="off-screen" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clip: rect(0px, 0px, 0px, 0px); color: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 1px; margin: -1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;">Image caption</span><span class="media-caption__text" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ececec; font-size: 13px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ethiopian soldiers after taking control of the Eritrean town of Barentu in May 2000</span></figcaption></figure><div class="amp-o-paragraph" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.25rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
He has since followed up on his reconciliation offer by <a class="amp-o-link" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-44376298" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-size: 1rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.25rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">agreeing to a 2002 border commission resolution which awarded disputed territories, including the town of Badme, to Eritrea</a> . This was one of the war's main flashpoints.</div>
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Eritrea has not commented on the move.</div>
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Its information minister Yemane Gebre Meskel had previously told the BBC that relations could not be resolved until Ethiopia withdrew "from the occupied territories".</div>
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However, the relationship with Eritrea is unlikely to thaw to the extent that Ethiopia could once more rely on its ports in Assab and Massawa. There is also a danger that Ethiopia's naval ambitions could alarm Eritrea.</div>
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Former Ethiopian diplomat Birhanemeskel Abebe speculates that strategic and geo-political security concerns could be driving the navy plan.</div>
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"Ethiopia's right to use international waters demands it has a naval base," he told the BBC's Newsday programme.</div>
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He suggested Kenya, Somaliland and Djibouti as possible locations for the base.</div>
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The plan, Mr Birhanemeskel said, was to push for the "unification of the Horn of Africa as an economic bloc and the navy is part of that project".</div>
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He said Ethiopia would use its strong cultural and economic ties in the region to push for its naval ambitions.</div>
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The Kenyan option</h2>
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In May, Ethiopia agreed a deal with Kenya to facilitate the acquisition of land in the island of Lamu as part of the Lamu Port-South Sudan-Ethiopia-Transport (Lapsset) project, a $24bn (£18bn) transport and infrastructure plan to link the two countries and their neighbours.</div>
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The project was signed in 2012 but has been beset by funding delays and security problems in both countries.</div>
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In Ethiopia, the government was until recently dealing with large anti-government protests which culminated in the resignation of Mr Abiy's predecessor Hailemariam Desalegn in February.</div>
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Mr Abiy has struck a different tone since taking office, calling for reconciliation in Ethiopia. He has pushed for reforms including the release of political prisoners and activists.</div>
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His government has also ended a state of emergency.</div>
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Deo Gumba, from the Institute for Security Studies (ISS), says Ethiopia's naval ambitions could be targeting the operations of Islamist militant group al-Shabab in Somalia, as well as piracy in the Indian Ocean.</div>
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Mr Gumba said that, as a US ally, Ethiopia was likely to get support for its plans.</div>
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Is a navy feasible?</h2>
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Timothy Walker, a maritime researcher at ISS, however cautioned that it would take decades for Ethiopia to have a fully fledged naval unit.</div>
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"It may create a maritime branch of its armed forces but not a navy... it would take decades for the procurement of ships and training of the force."</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3208947615986696523.post-45647681732644832002018-03-08T07:16:00.001-08:002018-03-08T07:16:45.724-08:00Ethiopian State of Emergency and US Rex Tillerson visit, saves the situation, or advice the regime share or leave power?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3208947615986696523.post-15638281911570270532017-11-09T06:07:00.001-08:002017-11-09T06:07:19.866-08:00Saudi Arabia’s new Crown Prince<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/HkqDtHI9SJQ" width="480"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3208947615986696523.post-74172967046827815732017-08-22T02:49:00.001-07:002017-08-22T02:49:17.765-07:00Why are so many military bases in Djibouti? — Quartz<div style="background-color: #f9f9f9; border: 0px; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: "PT Serif", Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 30px; padding: 16px 0px; position: relative; text-size-adjust: auto; transition: background 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: #f9f9f9; border: 0px; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: "PT Serif", Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 30px; padding: 4px 0px 16px; position: relative; text-size-adjust: auto; transition: background 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">In early August, China became the latest country to open a military base in the Horn of Africa nation of Djibouti, the third smallest country on the continent’s mainland.</div><div style="background-color: #f9f9f9; border: 0px; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: "PT Serif", Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 30px; padding: 16px 0px; position: relative; text-size-adjust: auto; transition: background 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">Chinese officials said the facility had nothing to do with military expansion and will be <a href="https://qz.com/1043185/china-has-officially-opened-its-first-overseas-military-base-in-djibouti-in-the-horn-of-africa/" style="border: 0px; color: #168dd9; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: auto; vertical-align: baseline;">a supply center</a> for their peacekeeping and humanitarian missions in the region. For many, the decision signified China’s growing role in Africa and its determination to secure <a href="https://qz.com/827935/rwanda-is-a-landlocked-country-with-few-natural-resources-so-why-is-china-investing-so-heavily-in-it/" style="border: 0px; color: #168dd9; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: auto; vertical-align: baseline;">its expanding interests</a> across the continent.</div><div style="background-color: #f9f9f9; border: 0px; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: "PT Serif", Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 30px; padding: 16px 0px; position: relative; text-size-adjust: auto; transition: background 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">But the move was also indicative of Djibouti’s growing role as an attractive spot for global military superpowers. Located at the southern entrance to the Red Sea, Djibouti is a tiny, barren country, with a population less than one million. Yet since the turn of the century, it has become a base for various European, Asian, and American forces, who have all camped in the region for one reason or another.</div><div style="background-color: #f9f9f9; border: 0px; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: "PT Serif", Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 30px; padding: 16px 0px; position: relative; text-size-adjust: auto; transition: background 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="djibouti-map_002" src="https://qzprod.files.wordpress.com/2017/08/djibouti-map_002.png?w=2560" /></div><h2 style="background-color: #f9f9f9; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: AdelleBold, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 32px; margin: 19px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto; vertical-align: baseline;">As the former colonial power, France still has one of its largest concentration of its overseas forces stationed in Djibouti. After the terrorist attacks of 9/11, the United States also established Camp Lemonnier—its only permanent military installation in Africa—in order to combat terrorist threats in Yemen and the Horn of Africa. Japan’s only foreign military base is also based in the capital Djibouti and is now set for expansion <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-military-djibouti-idUSKCN12D0C4" style="border: 0px; color: #168dd9; cursor: pointer; font-family: "PT Serif", Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: auto; vertical-align: baseline;">as a counterweight</a><span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: "pt serif" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 20px;"> to China’s increasing influence. The Italians also have their own base, while </span><a href="http://www.dw.com/en/german-soldiers-in-africa-hunting-for-smugglers-and-pirates/a-2239396" style="border: 0px; color: #168dd9; cursor: pointer; font-family: "PT Serif", Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: auto; vertical-align: baseline;">troops from Germany</a><span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: "pt serif" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 20px;"> and Spain are hosted by the French.</span><div style="border: 0px; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: "PT Serif", Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 30px; padding: 16px 0px; position: relative; text-size-adjust: auto; transition: background 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">Analysts say Djibouti’s geostrategic location and its stability in a volatile region has made it an important playground for world powers. Located between Somalia, Eritrea, and Yemen, Djibouti occupies a strategic location adjacent to the Bab el Mandab Strait, which is a critical corridor for international shipping.</div><div style="border: 0px; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: "PT Serif", Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 30px; padding: 16px 0px; position: relative; text-size-adjust: auto; transition: background 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">Over the years, military powers have sent their forces to Djibouti either to carry out surveillance and <a href="https://qz.com/525983/leaked-documents-show-the-us-is-running-a-drone-war-against-terrorism-in-africa/" style="border: 0px; color: #168dd9; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: auto; vertical-align: baseline;">counterterrorism strikes</a> or to <a href="https://qz.com/935357/with-reduced-patrols-and-illegal-fishing-somalias-pirates-could-be-making-a-comeback/" style="border: 0px; color: #168dd9; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: auto; vertical-align: baseline;">deter the threat of piracy</a>to international shipping lines. More recently, Sunni Arab states like Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, <a href="https://qz.com/955585/in-somalia-and-eritrea-the-united-arab-emirates-is-expanding-its-influence-by-building-ports-and-funding-military-bases/" style="border: 0px; color: #168dd9; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: auto; vertical-align: baseline;">who are concerned</a> about the expanding influence of the Shiite-led Iran, have been taking an interest in Djibouti as a base to prosecute the war in Yemen and tighten the noose of Houthi rebels.</div></h2><div style="background-color: #f9f9f9; border: 0px; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: "PT Serif", Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 30px; padding: 16px 0px; position: relative; text-size-adjust: auto; transition: background 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">Djibouti handles an estimated 90% of landlocked <a href="https://worldview.stratfor.com/article/djibouti-its-all-about-location" style="border: 0px; color: #168dd9; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: auto; vertical-align: baseline;">Ethiopia’s maritime trade</a>, an important deal given the latter’s 100 million population and exponential economic growth. Ethiopia had to increasingly start using the port of Djibouti after becoming landlocked when Eritrea broke off as an independent nation in 1991.</div><div style="background-color: #f9f9f9; border: 0px; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: "PT Serif", Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 30px; padding: 16px 0px; position: relative; text-size-adjust: auto; transition: background 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">With very little in the way of natural resources or human capital, Djibouti’s government “has spared no effort to translate geopolitical fortune into commercial and political advantage,” says Matthew Bryden, the director of the think tank Sahan Research.</div><br /><br />
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<h2 style="background-color: #f9f9f9; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: AdelleBold, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 32px; margin: 19px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto; vertical-align: baseline;">Ports of call</h2><div style="background-color: #f9f9f9; border: 0px; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: "PT Serif", Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 30px; padding: 16px 0px; position: relative; text-size-adjust: auto; transition: background 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">Djibouti handles an estimated 90% of landlocked <a href="https://worldview.stratfor.com/article/djibouti-its-all-about-location" style="border: 0px; color: #168dd9; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: auto; vertical-align: baseline;">Ethiopia’s maritime trade</a>, an important deal given the latter’s 100 million population and exponential economic growth. Ethiopia had to increasingly start using the port of Djibouti after becoming landlocked when Eritrea broke off as an independent nation in 1991.</div><div style="background-color: #f9f9f9; border: 0px; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: "PT Serif", Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 30px; padding: 16px 0px; position: relative; text-size-adjust: auto; transition: background 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">With very little in the way of natural resources or human capital, Djibouti’s government “has spared no effort to translate geopolitical fortune into commercial and political advantage,” says Matthew Bryden, the director of the think tank Sahan Research.</div><br /><br />
<figure class="progressive-image inline-image alignnone zoomable size-medium is-loaded animation-complete" id="image-1056301" style="background-color: #f9f9f9; border: 0px; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: "PT Serif", Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 25px; max-width: 640px; padding: 26px 0px 0px; position: relative; text-size-adjust: auto; vertical-align: baseline; width: 640px;"><picture style="background-color: transparent !important; background-image: url("https://qzprod.files.wordpress.com/2017/08/rts13if3.jpg?quality=80&strip=all&w=50"); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: cover; display: block; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 426.656px; position: relative; text-size-adjust: auto; transform: translateZ(0px);"></picture></figure><br /><br />
<div style="background-color: #f9f9f9; border: 0px; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: "PT Serif", Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 30px; padding: 16px 0px; position: relative; text-size-adjust: auto; transition: background 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">Bryden says that president Ismael Omar Guelleh has been the fulcrum in opening the country to international powers and renting some of its territory to foreign military bases. Since ascending to power in 1999, Guelleh has been re-elected four times, with his party holding the majority of the seats in parliament. The 70-year-old’s rule over Djibouti has been <a href="http://foreignpolicy.com/2011/04/08/a-friendly-little-dictatorship-in-the-horn-of-africa-2/" style="border: 0px; color: #168dd9; cursor: pointer; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: auto; vertical-align: baseline;">labeled autocratic</a>, with his government <a href="https://www.hrw.org/news/2011/04/04/djibouti-allow-peaceful-protests" style="border: 0px; color: #168dd9; cursor: pointer; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: auto; vertical-align: baseline;">cracking down on opposition members</a> and approving a constitutional amendment that <a href="https://www.iol.co.za/news/africa/djibouti-lawmakers-remove-term-limits-480653" style="border: 0px; color: #168dd9; cursor: pointer; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: auto; vertical-align: baseline;">removed presidential term limits</a>.</div><div style="background-color: #f9f9f9; border: 0px; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: "PT Serif", Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 30px; padding: 16px 0px; position: relative; text-size-adjust: auto; transition: background 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">In 2001, barely two years into power, and as the US-led War on Terror was unfolding, Guelleh started communicating to foreign powers that the microstate was friendly and was ready to punch above its weight.</div><div style="background-color: #f9f9f9; border: 0px; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: "PT Serif", Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 30px; padding: 16px 0px; position: relative; text-size-adjust: auto; transition: background 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">As a poor country with high unemployment rates and susceptible to spikes in food and fuel prices, the rents from foreign countries’ military bases would essentially prove crucial for economic growth. For instance, the <a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2014/05/us-secures-10-year-deal-djibouti-base-20145655315274469.html" style="border: 0px; color: #168dd9; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: auto; vertical-align: baseline;">United States pays</a> $63 million annually to lease its base, while the Chinese <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/25/world/africa/us-djibouti-chinese-naval-base.html" style="border: 0px; color: #168dd9; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: auto; vertical-align: baseline;">will be paying</a> $20 million a year besides the billions they are investing in building a railway, a port, an industrial park, and banks.</div><div class="atlas-chart" data-height="449" data-id="ByTOpE7dW" data-width="640" style="background-color: #f9f9f9; border: 0px; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: "PT Serif", Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 16px 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="426" src="https://www.theatlas.com/embed/ByTOpE7dW" style="border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto; vertical-align: baseline;" width="100%"></iframe></div><div style="background-color: #f9f9f9; border: 0px; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: "PT Serif", Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 30px; padding: 16px 0px; position: relative; text-size-adjust: auto; transition: background 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">For Guelleh the situation proved to be a positive sum. “In addition to developing Djibouti’s ports and infrastructure, Guelleh has attracted foreign bases that both provide income and a degree of protection from external aggression,” Bryden said.</div><div style="background-color: #f9f9f9; border: 0px; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: "PT Serif", Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 30px; padding: 16px 0px; position: relative; text-size-adjust: auto; transition: background 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">Yet Djibouti could be walking a fine line between neutrality and opportunism, says analysts. For instance, <a href="http://www.alleastafrica.com/2016/10/09/uae-moves-squeeze-djiboutis-economy-opens-alternative-shipping-line-ethiopia/" style="border: 0px; color: #168dd9; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: auto; vertical-align: baseline;">a recent spat</a> with the Dubai-based DP World pushed the UAE to <a href="https://qz.com/955585/in-somalia-and-eritrea-the-united-arab-emirates-is-expanding-its-influence-by-building-ports-and-funding-military-bases/" style="border: 0px; color: #168dd9; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: auto; vertical-align: baseline;">fund ports and military bases</a> in both Eritrea and Somaliland. After Djibouti reduced its diplomatic status with Qatar, the latter removed its peacekeeping forces from the Djibouti-Eritrea border, <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-40340210" style="border: 0px; color: #168dd9; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: auto; vertical-align: baseline;">raising tensions</a> of a renewed border dispute. And with the arrival of the Chinese, any friction with Western powers who are just a few miles away from each other might test the limits of Djiboutian diplomacy.</div><div style="background-color: #f9f9f9; border: 0px; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: "PT Serif", Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 30px; padding: 16px 0px; position: relative; text-size-adjust: auto; transition: background 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">Djibouti might also risk being drawn into other countries’ wars. 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font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 1px !important; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px !important; position: absolute !important; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px !important;">Media caption</span>Cash as a gift at Zimbabwe wedding</figcaption></figure><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Hyperinflation forced the government to abandon the Zimbabwe dollar in 2009.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Foreign Minister Simbarashe Mumbengegwi said the cattle had been donated mostly by farmers who had benefited from the land reform programme, the state-run Herald newspaper <a class="story-body__link-external" href="http://www.herald.co.zw/president-to-hand-over-au-donation/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(17, 103, 168, 0.3); border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">reported</a>.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Their donation was an "expansion" of a 2015 pledge by Mr Mugabe to donate 300 cattle, he added.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Speaking at the summit, Mr Mugabe said it was a "modest contribution" and a "symbolic step" towards helping to end the "donor dependency syndrome" in Africa.</div><figure class="media-landscape has-caption full-width" style="background-color: #111111; border: 0px; clear: both; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 24px -24.6406px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="image-and-copyright-container" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe speaks during the burial of Brigadier General James Murozvi, who was granted national hero status by President Robert Mugabe, at the National Heroes Acre in Harare, on April 12, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / Jekesai NJIKIZANA (Photo credit should read JEKESAI NJIKIZANA/AFP/Getty Images)" class="responsive-image__img js-image-replace" data-highest-encountered-width="624" datasrc="https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/320/cpsprodpb/EFD8/production/_95900416_mugabe.jpg" height="549" src="https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/EFD8/production/_95900416_mugabe.jpg" style="border: 0px; 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color: #ececec; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.8125rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.23077; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Robert Mugabe, 93, has governed Zimbabwe since independence in 1980</span></figcaption></figure><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"As an African and a farmer, the donation of cattle came naturally to me, given that our continent is rich in cattle and cattle are held as a store of wealth," Mr Mugabe said.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="story-body__link-external" href="http://www.africaunionfoundation.org/en/pages/programmes" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(17, 103, 168, 0.3); border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">On its website</a>, the AU Foundation says it focuses on development programmes for youth and women, and promoting gender equality.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mr Mumbengegwi said the donation was significant as it showed that the AU could find innovative ways to raise money for its projects.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mr Mugabe, during his term as AU chairman in 2015 and 2016, campaigned for the AU to be self-financed as about 60% of its budget came from foreign donors, the Herald reported.</div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3208947615986696523.post-52881723134885207092017-06-29T02:42:00.001-07:002017-06-29T02:42:42.140-07:00The 13 demands on Qatar from Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the UAE and Egypt | The National<div class="article-body-page" style="background-color: white; clear: both; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; position: relative;"><div class="body" itemprop="articleBody"><div class="article-body-page current" id="page1" style="clear: both; position: relative;"><div class="" style="color: black; margin-bottom: 1em;">KUWAIT CITY // Acting as a mediator, Kuwait has presented Qatar a list of demands from Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the UAE and Egypt, the four Arab nations that cut ties with Qatar in early June.</div><div style="color: black; margin-bottom: 1em;">Here’s the demands:</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Web Bold" style="font-weight: bold !important;">1. </span>Curb diplomatic ties with </span><span style="color: red;">Iran and close its diplomatic missions</span> there. Expel members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard from Qatar and cut off any joint military cooperation with Iran. Only trade and commerce with Iran that complies with US and international sanctions will be permitted.</div><div style="color: black; margin-bottom: 1em;"></div><div class="embedObjects" style="color: #232323; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic;"><ul style="list-style: none outside none; padding: 0px;"></ul></div><div style="color: #232323;"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Web Bold" style="font-weight: bold !important;">2. </span>Sever all ties to terrorist organizations, specifically the </span><span style="color: red;">Muslim Brotherhood, ISIL, Al Qaeda, and Hizbollah. </span>Formally declare those entities as terrorist groups.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Web Bold" style="font-weight: bold !important;">3.</span> </span><span style="color: red;">Shut down Al Jazeera </span>and its affiliate stations.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Web Bold" style="font-weight: bold !important;">4. </span>Shut down news </span><span style="color: red;">outlets that Qatar funds</span>, directly and indirectly, including <span style="color: red;">Arabi21, Rassd, Al Araby Al Jadeed and Middle East Eye.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Web Bold" style="font-weight: bold !important;">5.</span> Immediately terminate the </span><span style="color: red;">Turkish military presence currently in Qatar</span> and end any joint military cooperation with Turkey inside Qatar.</div><div style="color: black; margin-bottom: 1em;"></div><div class="embedObjects" style="color: #232323; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic;"><ul style="list-style: none outside none; padding: 0px;"></ul></div><div style="color: #232323;"></div><div style="color: black; margin-bottom: 1em;"><span class="Web Bold" style="font-weight: bold !important;">6.</span> Stop all means of funding for individuals, groups or organisations that have been designated as terrorists by Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Egypt, Bahrain, the US and other countries.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em;"><span class="Web Bold" style="color: black; font-weight: bold;">7. </span><span style="color: red;">Hand over terrorist figures </span><span style="color: black;">and wanted individuals from Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Egypt and Bahrain to their countries of origin. </span><span style="color: red;">Freeze their assets,</span><span style="color: black;"> and provide any desired information about their residency, movements and finances.</span></div><div style="color: black; margin-bottom: 1em;"></div><div class="embedObjects" style="color: #232323; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic;"><ul style="list-style: none outside none; padding: 0px;"></ul></div><div style="color: #232323;"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Web Bold" style="font-weight: bold !important;">8.</span> End interference in </span><span style="color: red;">sovereign countries’ internal affairs</span>. Stop granting citizenship to wanted nationals from Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Egypt and Bahrain. Revoke Qatari citizenship for existing nationals where such citizenship violates those countries’ laws.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Web Bold" style="font-weight: bold !important;">9.</span> Stop all contacts with the </span><span style="color: red;">political opposition in Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Egypt and Bahrain</span>. Hand over all files detailing Qatar’s prior contacts with and support for those opposition groups.</div><div style="color: black; margin-bottom: 1em;"></div><div class="embedObjects" style="color: #232323; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic;"><ul style="list-style: none outside none; padding: 0px;"></ul></div><div style="color: #232323;"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em;"><span class="Web Bold" style="font-weight: bold !important;">10<span style="color: red;">.</span></span><span style="color: red;"> Pay reparations and compensation for loss of life and other,</span><span style="color: black;"> financial losses caused by Qatar’s policies in recent years. The sum will be determined in coordination with Qatar.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Web Bold" style="font-weight: bold !important;">11.</span> </span><span style="color: red;">Align itself with the other Gulf and Arab countries militarily, politically, socially and economically</span>, as well as on economic matters, in line with an agreement reached with Saudi Arabia in 2014.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em;"><span class="Web Bold" style="color: black; font-weight: bold;">12.</span><span style="color: red;"> Agree to all the demands within 10 days of it being submitted to Qatar</span><span style="color: black;">, or the list becomes invalid. The document doesn’t specify what the countries will do if Qatar refuses to comply.</span></div><div style="color: black; margin-bottom: 1em;"></div><div class="embedObjects" style="color: #232323; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic;"><ul style="list-style: none outside none; padding: 0px;"></ul></div><div style="color: #232323;"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Web Bold" style="font-weight: bold !important;">13. </span>Consent to monthly audits for the first year after agreeing to the demands, then once per quarter during the second year. 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June 22, 2017 (ADDIS ABABA) - A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on peaceful uses of atomic energy Thursday was signed by the Ethiopian State Minister of Science and Technology, Afework Kassu Gizaw, and Russian Deputy Director General of ROSATOM Nikolai Spasskiy.<br /><br />
The first deal of its kind between the two countries was signed within the framework of IX International Forum ATOMEXPO 2017<br /><br />
“It envisages a bilateral cooperation in a wide range of spheres, i.e. development of nuclear infrastructure in Ethiopia, programs for raising public awareness of nuclear technologies and its application, radioisotopes and radio technologies’ application in industrial, medical, agricultural sectors,” said Ethiopian Foreign Ministry.<br /><br />
The agreement embraces collaboration in nuclear, radiological and physical security, fundamental and applied researches, HR training, nuclear research centres based on multi-functional research reactors.<br /><br />
The joint working group of Russia and Ethiopia will define the scope of work for implementation of the initiatives mentioned above.<br /><br />
<div style="outline: none;">The parties agreed to cooperate in the feasibility of implementing common projects referred to the development of collaboration in peaceful uses of atomic energy was agreed to be developed under the Memorandum.</div>Among others, atomic energy could be used in the areas of power generation, healthcare, agriculture, food preservation, industry and research.<br /><br />
The State Atomic Energy Corporation ROSATOM is a Russian publicly-owned corporation, which is the leader in the global nuclear technologies market.<br /><br />
It brings together nuclear power and power engineering assets, as well as NPP design and construction. ROSATOM is the largest electricity generating company in Russia, producing 196.37 billion kWh of electricity in 2016 (or 18.3% of the country’s total generation of electricity).<br /><br />
ROSATOM holds first place for the largest portfolio of foreign construction projects (34 NPPs in 12 countries). ROSATOM produces annually approximately 3,000 tonnes of uranium domestically, and some 5,000 tonnes in other countries.<br /><br />
ROSATOM with its 1/3 world market share takes the lead in global uranium enrichment services and covers 17.7% of the global nuclear fuel market<br /><br />
ROSATOM brings together over 300 enterprises and organisations, including the world’s only nuclear icebreaker fleet. ROSATOM is tasked with implementing the uniform state policy on the uses of atomic energy as well as fulfilling the Russian Federation’s international obligations on the peaceful uses of atomic energy.<br /><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3208947615986696523.post-41924849843238040962017-05-04T07:06:00.001-07:002017-05-04T07:06:24.494-07:00Bill Funds Border Security--in Libya, Ethiopia, Pakistan, Egypt...<h1 class="page-header" style="background-color: white; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 36px; font-weight: 200; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding-bottom: 9px;"></h1><div class="region region-content" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /><br />
<section class="block block-system clearfix" id="block-system-main" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div about="/commentary/terence-p-jeffrey/bill-funds-border-security-libya-ethiopia-pakistan-egypt" class="node node-opinion node-promoted clearfix" id="node-1644821" style="box-sizing: border-box;" typeof="sioc:Item foaf:Document"><div class="authors" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 10px 0px; padding-bottom: 10px;"><div class="opin-auth-img" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: initial;"><a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/author/terence-p-jeffrey" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #005291; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="Terence P. Jeffrey" src="http://cdn.cnsnews.com/styles/author/s3/pictures/picture-273-1429718036.jpg?itok=XtLRtVuv" height="100" style="border-radius: 6px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: 50px; margin-right: 5px; vertical-align: middle; width: auto;" title="Terence P. Jeffrey" typeof="foaf:Image" width="100" /></a></div> By <a class="username" href="http://www.cnsnews.com/author/terence-p-jeffrey" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #005291; text-decoration-line: none;" title="View user profile.">Terence P. Jeffrey</a> | May 3, 2017 | 4:19 AM EDT</div><div class="authors" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 10px 0px; padding-bottom: 10px;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">The </span><a href="https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CPRT-115HPRT25284/pdf/CPRT-115HPRT25284.pdf" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #005291; font-size: 18px; text-decoration-line: none;">1,665-page spending bill</a><span style="font-size: 18px;"> the Republican-controlled Congress is planning to pass this week includes multiple measures that seemingly demonstrate a commitment to securing the border — in Libya, Ethiopia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Egypt, </span>Jordan<span style="font-size: 18px;"> and Lebanon.</span></div><div class="content" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 20px;"><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="field-items" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 10px;">It does not include the $1.4 billion President Donald Trump requested to begin building the wall he promised to build along the U.S.-Mexico border.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 10px;">But, the bill makes clear, Jordan's border must be secured.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 10px;">The section that appropriates money for the "Global War on Terrorism" provides: "That these funds may be used to support the Government of Jordan, in such amounts as the Secretary of Defense may determine, to enhance the ability of the armed forces of Jordan to increase or sustain security along its borders..."</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 10px;">Imagine if the part of the bill that appropriates money for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said: "That these funds may be used to support the Government of the United States, in such amounts as the Secretary of Homeland Security may determine, to enhance the ability of the Border Patrol to increase or sustain security along the southwestern border of the United States by building impenetrable walls along that border."</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 10px;">Would that have been an outrage? Would it have justified Senate Democratic Leader Charles Schumer in leading a move to shut down the government of the United States to ensure no such walls were built?</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 10px;">Had the Republicans included money in the bill to fund Trump's border wall, Schumer would have needed to explain to Americans why he is happy to spend their tax dollars to aid Jordan's military in securing Jordan's border while refusing to give the U.S. Border Patrol all the resources it needs — including walls — to secure the borders of the United States.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 10px;">While the Republican leadership would not appropriate the $1.4 billion needed to start the wall at the U.S.-Mexico border, it is appropriating $1.3 billion for aid to Egypt. The bill even gives a special status to the part of this aid Egypt will use to secure its border.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="color: #333333;">"Of the funds appropriated by this Act under the heading 'Foreign Military Financing Program,'" the bill says, "$1,300,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2018, may be made available </span><span style="color: red;">for assistance for Egypt.</span><span style="color: #333333;">"</span></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="color: red;">Fifteen percent of these foreign aid dollars, the bill says, can be withheld from Egypt</span><span style="color: #333333;"> if the secretary of state does not certify that Egypt's government is "taking effective steps" to "advance democracy and human rights."</span></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 10px;">But even if the secretary of state does not certify that Egypt is advancing democracy and human rights, it will not impact that part of U.S. aid to Egypt that is aimed at improving Egyptian border security.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 10px;">The bill says: "That the certification requirement of this paragraph shall not apply to funds appropriated by this Act under such heading for counterterrorism, border security, and nonproliferation programs for Egypt."</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 10px;">In the United States of America, the Bill of Rights still applies. But Congress has not ensured that our own border is secure.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 10px;">House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi argues it would be "immoral, expensive and unwise" to fund construction of a wall to protect this freedom-loving nation from those who try to cross our border in a calculated violation of the law. Does she, at the same time, think it is wise, moral and worth the cost to take money from Americans and give it to the government of Egypt to protect Egypt's borders?</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="color: #333333;">Under the terms of the funding bill, </span><span style="color: red;">U.S. taxpayer money will also go to Ethiopia "for border security and counterterrorism programs."</span><span style="color: #333333;"> It will go to the Lebanese Armed Forces "to professionalize the LAF and to strengthen border security and combat terrorism, including training and equipping the LAF to secure Lebanon's borders." It will go to Libya to "improve border security." And it will go "to support programs to train border and customs officials in Pakistan and Afghanistan."</span></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 10px;">But thanks to the deal that Republican and Democratic leaders made in Congress, it will not go to fund the border wall President Trump vowed to voters he would build if he were elected.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 10px;">When Trump held a rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday, the crowd chanted at him: "Build that wall! Build that wall! Build that wall!"</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 10px;">"Don't worry, we're going to have the wall," he said. "Don't worry about it."</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 10px;">"We'll build the wall, folks," he said.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 10px;">Whether Donald Trump does or does not build that wall will be a major measure of whether his presidency is a success or a failure.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Terence P. Jeffrey is the editor-in-chief of CNSnews.com.</em></div></div></div></div></div></div></section></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3208947615986696523.post-51076703818568833592017-02-16T07:01:00.001-08:002017-02-16T07:01:42.170-08:00White House Press Conference: President Trump, Israeli PM Netanyahu hold...<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/McCvoFDheEo" width="480"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3208947615986696523.post-56023205161339192532016-12-05T01:02:00.001-08:002016-12-05T01:02:09.444-08:00The U.S. And Ethiopia’s Complicated Alliance - Seeker<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/mPVIPZe4D40" frameborder="0" allowFullScreen=""></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3208947615986696523.post-63009373704983954442016-08-27T08:28:00.001-07:002016-08-27T08:28:23.017-07:00Turkey’s NATO Exit & the New Turkey-Russia Alliance: A Turning Point in ...<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/5cvyrYyLpbk" width="480"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3208947615986696523.post-19944591873248721362016-08-24T11:24:00.001-07:002016-08-24T11:24:24.552-07:00Obama’s Africa policy – an expanding military footprint to grab resources Ethiopia is a CenterPoint<br /><br />
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Obama's Africa policy — an expanding military footprint to grab resources</span></h1></div><div id="content-area" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, "bitstream vera sans", sans-serif; line-height: 15.996px;"><div class="node node-type-glw-article" id="node-62514"><div class="node-inner"><div class="meta" style="color: #918f8f; text-transform: uppercase;"></div><div class="content"><div class="field field-type-date field-field-publication-date"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item odd"><span class="date-display-single" style="font-size: x-small;">Wednesday, August 24, 2016</span></div></div></div><div class="glw-authors" style="font-size: 12px;">By <span class="glwnews-article-location"><a href="https://www.greenleft.org.au/taxonomy/term/722" style="color: #2cb01c; text-decoration: none;">Rupen Savoulian</a></span></div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;"><img src="https://africaupclose.wilsoncenter.org/files/2013/06/Africa-with-Obama-overlay-w700.jpg" style="border: 0px;" width="100%" /></div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;">United States President Barack Obama has carried out classically colonial, imperialistic policies towards Africa during his time in office.</div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;">John Feffer, from the Washington-based Institute for Policy Studies, said in a <i>Common Dreams</i> article: “Strip away all the modern PR and prettified palaver and it's an ugly scramble for oil, minerals, and markets for U.S. goods.”</div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;">Ethiopia, a lynchpin in the East African region that is playing an increasing role in the African Union, is a classic example.</div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;">Major international players, such as the US, are giving Ethiopia and East Africa more attention and are establishing cooperative relations with that country.</div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;"><b>Ethiopia</b></div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;">But Ethiopia, and East Africa generally, has always been strategically important to great powers. When Ethiopia was governed by a Communist-allied regime (1974-91), it was always regarded as a strategically important ally for the former Eastern bloc countries.</div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;">It maintained extensive trading, cultural and political relations with the other socialist countries. The United States, Britain and other imperialist powers viewed Ethiopia as a battleground — indeed, Africa was in the midst of the Cold War fought between the allies of the rival superpowers.</div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;">The US sponsored various ethnic-based militias in secessionist wars to topple the socialist regime in Addis Ababa. The US was interested in opening up Ethiopia to its economic imperatives. Using the disguise of humanitarian intervention, it funneled arms and support for the ethnic-separatist groups, gathered together in the Maoist-oriented Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF).</div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;">This formation, having acquired power in 1991 after the disbanding of the Eastern bloc and removal of the socialist regime, has hung onto power ever since through dictatorial measures.</div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;">The EPRDF quickly abandoned any pretence of commitment to Maoist-style socialism and became an enthusiastic Western ally. It has implemented International Monetary Fund economic programs. Corruption and mismanagement have become endemic. Human rights violations are normalised.</div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;">Agricultural products make up the largest part of Ethiopia's exports, despite chronic food shortages in the country.</div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;">Ina Counterpunch article, Graham Peebles said: “More than half the population live on less than [US]$1 a day; over 80% of the population live in rural areas (where birth-rates are highest), and work in agriculture, the majority being smallholder farmers who rely on the crops they grow to feed themselves and their families.</div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;">“The people of Ethiopia have suffered chronic food insecurity for generations: the major reason, as is the case throughout the world, is poverty. Other causes are complex; some due to climate change, others result from the ruling regime's policies ...</div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;">“International organisations encourage Ethiopia to produce cash crops to export, which reduces the land available for growing domestic crops — yes, Ethiopia — where millions rely on food aid every year — exports food.”</div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;">Ethiopia experienced drought and famine during the 1980s, drawing attention from the international community. The reaction of the imperialist powers was to exploit the suffering of the Ethiopians for Cold War political purposes — food became a political football. Media outlets broadcast heart-rending images of the famine's victims, and concerts were organised to raise money for food aid.</div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;">Western governments promoted the Eurocentric view that Africans — and in particular, socialist-oriented Africans — cannot feed and govern themselves. Any suggestions that there were natural causes contributing to the famine were dismissed and the blame was placed squarely on the shoulders of the regime.</div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;">Now Ethiopia again faces famine and food insecurity. By late last year, the number of people requiring food aid doubled to 8.2 million. Schools, hospitals and facilities have been forced to close down due to water and food shortages.</div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;">The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) released startling figures that place the number of <span style="color: red;">food-insecure people in Ethiopia at just over 10 million</span>. The OCHA points to the connection between natural and human-made causes, stating: “More than 80 per cent of the population live in rural areas and rely on rain-fed agriculture for their livelihood.</div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;">“Their vulnerability is frequently exacerbated by natural and man-made hazards, including drought, flooding, disease outbreaks, intercommunal conflict and refugee influxes from neighbouring states.</div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;">“Drought and flooding increase the risk of water-related <span style="color: red;">disease outbreaks, particularly Acute Watery Diarrhoea, malaria and measles and especially among children under age </span>5.</div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;">“Access to clean water and basic health care, including life-saving maternal and neonatal services, remains low.”</div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;">The Ethiopian government has responded by denying the severity of the crisis. The regime has jailed opponents, suppressed journalists and carried out repressive measures against Muslim and ethnic minorities, particularly in the Ogaden region in the south-east.</div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;">These are the same crimes of which the former socialist regime was accused and condemned. In an article headlined “Ogaden: Ethiopia's hidden shame”, Peebles said: “The ethnic Somali population of the Ogaden, in the southeast part of the country, has been the victim of extreme government brutality since 1992.</div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;">“It's a familiar story of a region with a strong identity seeking autonomy from central government, and the regime denying them that democratic right.”</div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;">However, the Addis Ababa regime has avoided outright international condemnation because it is a valued US proxy. In July last year, Obama visited Ethiopia and celebrated its role as a solid ally in the “war on terror”.</div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;">Obama praised Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn's regime and expressed appreciation for the Ethiopian military's role in US-supported wars in Somalia.</div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;"><b>Military bases</b></div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;">In a series of TomDispatch.com articles, investigative journalist Nick Turse revealed how the US has secretly built an enormous and extensive network of military bases, outposts and spying facilities across Africa.</div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;">In an article “America's empire of African bases spreads”, Turse documented his ongoing battle with the US military to uncover exactly how many, and how geographically extensive, the archipelago of US military bases is in Africa.</div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;">Turse wrote: “So how many U.S. military bases are there in Africa? It's a simple question with a simple answer.</div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;">“For years, U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) gave a stock response: one. Camp Lemonnier in the tiny, sun-bleached nation of Djibouti was America's only acknowledged 'base' on the continent. It wasn't true, of course, because there were camps, compounds, installations, and facilities elsewhere, but the military leaned hard on semantics.”</div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;">The US military prefers to use a new euphemism — cooperative security locations (CSLs) — to describe its military outposts in Africa. When taking into account all the other military facilities, spying locations, drone bases and considerable military settlements the US has, the number is astounding.</div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;">Turse describes it as an AFRICOM base bonanza: “Indeed, U.S. staging areas, cooperative security locations, forward operating locations (FOLs), and other outposts — many of them involved in intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance activities and Special Operations missions — have been built (or built up) in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Chad, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Niger, Senegal, the Seychelles, Somalia, South Sudan, and Uganda.”</div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;">The US military footprint, initiated by George W Bush, has escalated under Obama. The first African American president has overseen a huge rise in the US military presence in Africa.</div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;">In 2012, a US <i>Socialist Worker</i> article said: “It is no exaggeration to say that the U.S. is at war in Africa. The continent is awash with American military bases, covert operations and thousands of Western-funded troops, and responsibility for this escalation must be laid squarely on Obama's doorstep.</div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;">“Key to the Obama administration global strategy in the post-Iraq era is a shift from 'boots on the ground' towards 'alliance-building.' The idea is to cement American 'indispensability' to African political stability in geo-strategically critical areas — from the Horn of Africa, with its proximity to the Suez Canal and Middle East, to West African nations, with billions of barrels of oil.”</div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;">Obama has deployed an insidious policy of proxy-building; acquiring reliable allies, such as Ethiopia, who can perform the bulk of the actual fighting. Meanwhile, US special forces, military experts and foreign policy planners provide backup where needed.</div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;"><b>China</b></div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;"><i>Socialist Worker</i> pointed out the context: “During the past decade, the U.S. has engaged in a fierce battle with China for worldwide economic and military preeminence. The aim has been to encircle and contain China's growing reach.</div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;"><i>The Economist</i> reported a Department of Defense announcement that by 2020, 60 percent of American warships would be stationed in Asia, along with 'a range of other “investments” to ensure that despite China's fast-growing military might, America would still be able to 'rapidly project military power if needed to meet our security commitments.”'</div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;">“Intensified competition with China, and other powers such as Russia, is fueling the higher levels of U.S. military involvement in Africa and a new scramble for resources. This scramble is mainly about oil, in which Africa plays a critical supply role for both China and the U.S., but also about increased overall investment in resources — from diamonds and gold to land for agricultural investment.”</div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;">Beijing is of course looking out for its own interests. China has dealings with repressive states in Africa, such as Sudan, which receives military equipment and arms in return for oil.</div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;">Beijing has successfully acquired the oil markets of the new nation of South Sudan, importing 77% of its country's oil. This is galling for the US, because the birth of South Sudan was nurtured by the US, who provided arms for its secessionist ambitions.</div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;">The Chinese are building infrastructure in sub-Saharan Africa, providing billions in every sector of the economy, from roads to telecommunications to health. China's volume of trade with Africa reached $222 billion last year.</div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;">The US views China's “soft power” approach with anxiety. This underpins the US militarisation of the continent.</div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;">[Heavily abridged from <a href="http://links.org.au/obama-africa-military-resources" style="color: #2cb01c; text-decoration: none;">Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal</a>.]</div></div></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3208947615986696523.post-53900529869992305592016-07-28T02:28:00.001-07:002016-07-28T02:28:16.665-07:00Face of Defense: Airman Deploys to Ethiopia > U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE > Article View<h1 class="title" itemprop="headline" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.8em; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">F</h1><div class="info" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.3em; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="line" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 825px;">By Air Force Staff Sgt. 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<div class="minfo" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9em; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="caption" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Airman 1st Class Dylan Wisuri, 921st Contingency Response Squadron, poses for a photo at Travis Air Force Base, Calif., July 14, 2016. (U.S. Air Force photo Master Sgt. Joseph Swafford)</span></div></div><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A JTF-PO is a robust combination of the Air Force's swift airbase opening capability and the Army's critical overland cargo movement, tracking and distribution capabilities.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Additionally, JTF-PO integrates a Defense Logistics Agency Deployment Support Team to provide expeditionary contracting, warehousing and sustainment equipment and services for U.S. and coalition forces.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The 921st Contingency Response Squadron spent more than a month closing down a JTF-PO in Ethiopia after their sister squadron, the 821st CRS, opened it months earlier.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Since joining the 621st<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.6px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span>Contingency Response Wing, I have had the opportunity to travel all over and participate in real-world missions as well as exercises,” Wisuri said. “[Out of] all of the places I have been, I really enjoyed Ethiopia the most.”</span></div><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Experiencing Local Culture</strong></div><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Going to Ethiopia and really experiencing their culture and seeing how they live was definitely a different experience for me,” he said. “Also, the people in the local community were really nice and accommodating to us all.”</span></div><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The community wasn’t the only thing Wisuri said he enjoyed while he was in Ethiopia.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Waking up every morning to the beautiful backdrop of the area was nothing short of amazing,” he said. “The landscape was nice and green, to go along with their nice views; it was a real cool experience.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Though the trip was a great experience for Wisuri, he said he took more pride in helping his comrades.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Coming to close the JTF-PO meant a lot,” the airman said. “I played a part in getting airmen back home to their families and loved ones. I felt like I was serving a bigger mission than just closing down the base.”</span></div><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Contingency response airmen attend all types of exercises to ensure they are properly trained and stay proficient, Wisuri explained, adding that the training exercises prepared him for his trip to Ethiopia.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Exercises I have attended helped a lot,” he said. “During the exercise you are able to really get an idea of how things work, so when it’s the real deal you’re able to pay attention to those small details and know everything you are doing is meaningful to the mission.”</span></div><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Coming out of technical school, Wisuri swapped assignments with a classmate that sent him <a href="http://www.travis.af.mil/Home/igphoto/2001549803" id="anch_84" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #479acb; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">here</a>, and he’s been performing the contingency response mission ever since.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Growing up, when you think of the military it’s not usually humanitarian aid, but warfare,” he said. “But in the [contingency response wing] we are performing that humanitarian aid mission set as well as doing everything that we can for our country and doing a swell job at it.”</span></div><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Since his first day in the contingency response wing, Wisuri hit the ground running and it hasn’t gone unnoticed.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Dylan has been a go-getter since arriving in the [contingency response wing],” Said 1st Lt. Denver Barrows, 921st Aerial Port Flight commander. “Airmen entering directly from technical training must balance the traditional upgrade requirements as an aerial transporter and begin to execute the [contingency response] mission worldwide.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Dylan is part of a strong cohort of young airmen who have done just that,” Barrows continued. “When selected for a tasking, we know what we are getting: a top-notch transporter who has demonstrated superb maturity and judgment.”</span></div><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Contingency response units are self-sufficient and can deploy with all the personnel, equipment and supplies they need to execute their mission, officials said. As an Air Force Global Reach Laydown force, the 621st CRW bridges the gap between seizure forces and follow-on sustainment forces. The CRW is prepared to execute their mission for up to 45 days, and once redeployed home, are reconstituted within 72 hours and ready to once again answer the nation’s call.</span></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3208947615986696523.post-19280502709942670172016-07-13T09:00:00.001-07:002016-07-13T09:00:47.114-07:00China's Response to the South China Sea Arbitration Ruling<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vtvRkyjL4wQ" width="480"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3208947615986696523.post-24182330546930643412016-07-13T06:49:00.001-07:002016-07-13T06:50:34.393-07:00Netanyahu's Africa Trip Draws Israel and Egypt Closer, <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The Egyptian foreign minister’s visit to Jerusalem marks cooperation on issues from the peace process with the Palestinians to Ethiopia’s controversial Nile dam project.</div>
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In visiting Israel, Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry doesn’t only break the nine-year stretch of no Egyptian foreign minister coming to Israel. It’s also important that <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.729986" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #045973; font-size: inherit !important; text-decoration: none;">the foreign minister, not the intelligence minister, was sent by President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi</a>.</div>
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Ex-President Hosni Mubarak would send Intelligence Minister Omar Suleiman or the latter’s aides to discuss military and intelligence cooperation and the peace process with the Palestinians, or to consult over policy vis-a-vis Hamas.</div>
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The decision to send the foreign minister shows a new level of ties closer to political normalization. At the press conference, Shoukry, a seasoned diplomat who was Egypt’s ambassador to the United States from 2008 to 2012, focused on the <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.729986" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #045973; font-size: inherit !important; text-decoration: none;">peace process and reiterated that a two-state solution was attainable</a>.</div>
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But it was what he didn’t say that was interesting. Shoukry didn’t offer a peace initiative, parameters for relaunching negotiations, or a timetable. He didn’t even present Egypt as an official mediator; he simply mentioned his June 29 meetings with the Palestinian leaders and <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.730095" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #045973; font-size: inherit !important; text-decoration: none;">Egypt’s intentions to complete the Ramallah talks with the Israeli side</a>.</div>
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Sissi has apparently decided to open a public political channel with Israel that could eventually result in a presidential invitation to the prime minister to visit Cairo. Egypt and Israel have common interests only some of which are security related. Security and intelligence cooperation doesn’t require discussions at the foreign-minister level.</div>
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Israel has already agreed for Egypt to break the Camp David Accords by bringing ground troops and air support into Sinai. Israel has also agreed to Egypt’s transfer of sovereignty over the Sanafir and Tiran islands to the Saudis, with the kingdom pledging to uphold an agreement to which it’s not a signatory. All these agreements were concluded by emissaries in secret talks with no fanfare.</div>
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But for Egypt there are key issues that require it to go public with Israel. One is its concern about the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, which Ethiopia is building on the Nile. The first part of the dam is expected to be completed next year, and Egypt says it stands to lose between 11 billion and 19 billion cubic meters of water annually.</div>
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That will reduce Egypt’s electricity output by some 25 to 40 percent. The dam is considered such a threat that deposed President Mohammed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood had threatened to destroy it.</div>
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Egypt believes, quite rightly, that Israel has leverage in Ethiopia, and if it can’t prevent the building of the dam, it can at least persuade Ethiopia to coordinate water-sharing with Cairo so Egypt’s economy doesn’t suffer.</div>
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That might be the reason for the timing of Shoukry’s visit, right after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s return from Africa, to hear whether he had any good news for the Egyptians. Egypt needs this information to prepare for the conference of Nile Valley foreign ministers on Thursday in Uganda. Egypt also needs Israel’s support to counter any American intention to take the international peacekeepers out of Sinai, a step Egypt regards as surrendering to terror.</div>
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Cairo is also very <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/.premium-1.728288" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #045973; font-size: inherit !important; text-decoration: none;">interested in the renewed ties between Turkey and Israel</a>, mainly in the clause that lets Turkey be a major supplier of consumer goods and construction materials to Gaza. Turkey’s entrance puts Egypt in an uncomfortable position at best, in which it, with Israel, continues to impose a formal closure on Gaza while Turkey becomes an ally of Hamas, this time with an Israeli “permit.”</div>
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To change this equation, Egypt will have to coordinate its civilian policy on Gaza with Israel and promote a reconciliation agreement soon between Hamas and Fatah so it can open the Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt.</div>
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These are all weighty matters that a lightning visit to Israel by an Egyptian foreign minister can’t resolve. But the widening of the Israeli-Egyptian map of political interests, with an economic bonus in the background in the realm of natural gas, is a key development. It requires flexible and wise Israeli policy, with confidence-building measures toward the Palestinians that, this time, have strategic value in ties with Egypt and other Arab countries.</div>
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ADDIS ABABA, July 12 (Xinhua) -- The Ethiopian government on Tuesday issued a statement supporting China's stand on the South China Sea.<br />
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Ethiopia has noted the recent situation pertaining to the South China Sea and China's position on this issue, said the statement.<br />
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Ethiopia supports the position that any disputes over the South China Sea should be peacefully resolved through direct consultations and negotiations in accordance with bilateral agreements and regional consensus, the statement said.<br />
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Ethiopia maintains that the international community should play a constructive role in supporting all efforts aimed at safeguarding peace and stability in the region, which is in the interests of all parties."<br /><br />
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<div class="story-body__introduction" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 28px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has visited the scene of the 1976 Entebbe hostage rescue in Uganda, in which his brother, who led the raid, was killed.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 23px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Israeli commandos freed more than 100 hostages held for a week at an airport terminal, in a daring operation. They returned to Israel on 4 July 1976.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mr Netanyahu is also scheduled to visit Kenya, Ethiopia and Rwanda.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">He has said the trip symbolises "dramatic changes" in the relationship between Israel and Africa.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">He is the first Israeli prime minister to visit Sub-Saharan Africa since Yitzhak Shamir in 1987.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="story-body__link" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-36584346" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(17, 103, 168, 0.298039); border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Entebbe pilot Michel Bacos 'saw hostage murdered'</a></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; 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border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Entebbe: A mother's week of 'indescribable fear'</a></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="story-body__link" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-35475403" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(17, 103, 168, 0.298039); border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Israel's unwanted African migrants</a></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Monday's ceremony at the scene of the raid was attended by some of the rescued hostages and Israeli special forces who carried out the operation.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mr Netanyahu said: "Exactly 40 years ago Israeli soldiers carried out the historic mission in Entebbe. Forty years ago they landed in the dead of night in a country led by a brutal dictator who gave refuge to terrorists. Today we landed in broad daylight to be welcomed by a president who fights terrorism."</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">His elder brother, Jonathan, was shot dead as he led the operation to free hostages, who had been taken captive on an Air France flight by Palestinian and German militants.</div><br /><br />
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<div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Four hostages, at least seven hostage-takers and 20 Ugandan troops who were guarding the old terminal were also killed.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Almost all those freed were Israeli and non-Israeli Jews who had been separated from other passengers by the gunmen. The Air France captain and his 12-strong crew were also rescued.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The non-Jewish passengers had been released by the hostage-takers earlier in the week.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mr Netanyahu had previously called the operation "dramatic national experience" and one that had "great personal consequence" for his family.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In Entebbe, the prime minister said: "I learned from my brother that you need two things to defeat the terrorists: clarity and courage."</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"When terrorism succeeds in one place it spreads to other places, and when terrorism is defeated anywhere it is weakened everywhere. This is why Entebbe... was a victory for all humanity."</div><hr class="story-body__line" style="background-color: #dbdbdb; border: 0px; color: #dbdbdb; height: 1px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 16px; width: 591.563px;" /><h2 class="story-body__crosshead" style="border: 0px; color: #1e1e1e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 18px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Analysis: 'Return to Africa', by Jonathan Marcus, BBC diplomatic correspondent</h2><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The death of his brother who commanded Israel's hostage rescue mission at Entebbe changed the course of Benjamin Netanyahu's life and set him on a trajectory that was ultimately to make him prime minister.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But this is much more than a personal pilgrimage or the commemoration of a bold military operation. Mr Netanyahu's swing through Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda and Ethiopia is intended to mark Israel's "return to Africa", a region that is figuring more and more prominently on the international stage.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Israel's ties with sub-Saharan Africa were strong during the early 1960s but withered under pressure from the oil power of the Arab states.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Israel's security links with apartheid South Africa also didn't help.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But now there are mutual benefits for both sides with African states eager to develop economic and security ties and Israel keen to make new friends and develop ties in a region where Islamist extremism is on the march.</div><hr class="story-body__line" style="background-color: #dbdbdb; border: 0px; color: #dbdbdb; height: 1px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 16px; width: 591.563px;" /><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Israeli leader earlier said the trip was part of an effort to "return to Africa in a big way".</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Israel has launched a $13m (£9.8m) aid package to strengthen ties with African countries, including providing training in security and health.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It hopes greater engagement will see it gain more support from African countries at the UN and other international bodies, where it is regularly condemned over its occupation of the West Bank and blockade of the Gaza Strip.</div><br /><br />
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 13.6px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">An independent MP of El Fashaga constituency in El Gedaref state said that 45 Sudanese have been killed as a result of assaults by militias from Ethiopia these months. “Attacks, killings, abductions for ransoms, and the expulsion of farmers from their lands continue</strong>.”</div>
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Mid-November, MP Mubarak El Nur <a href="https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/sudanese-man-dies-in-botched-kidnap-attempt" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #29a4d9; font-size: 13.6px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">reported</a> that the number of dead at the hands of Ethiopian militiamen reached 30, and that 20 people were abducted in the border area in eastern Sudan. The militiamen who attack the Sudanese farmers are organised and supported by bodies in Ethiopia he did not mention.</div>
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The independent MP denied a statement by the Popular Defence Forces El Gedaref town last week, in which they claimed to have expelled Ethiopian militiamen from Sudan, and to restore the about 100,000 acres of farmland that were occupied by Ethiopians to their Sudanese owners. “The Ethiopian militias are still controlling more than two million acres of land while the government is in a deep sleep.”</div>
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He warned that the fate of El Fashaga area might become such as that of Halayeb, an area of disputed sovereignty between Egypt and Sudan where Egypt has seized control since 1995.</div>
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The attacks of the Ethiopian 'Shifta' militias developed from stealing agricultural machinery to murdering farmers, El Nur told Radio Dabanga last month. Abductions of Sudanese citizens in El Gedaref have become prevalent starting October.</div>
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Residents of the locality earlier criticised the Sudanese government for failing to complete the demarcation of the border with Ethiopia. On Thursday evening, an Ethiopian delegation arrived in Blue Nile state, to discuss issues of mutual concern between border states at the 17th Session of the Conference on the Development of the Border Relations between Sudan and Ethiopia, in Blue Nile State. Among them are delegates of the border states including Gedaref, Kassala, and Sennar, and the Ethiopian regions of Bani-Shangol, Tigre, and Amhara, the official Sudan News reported.</div>
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Last week, human trafficking gangs kidnapped two young men and a girl from Red Sea State, and demanded their families to pay SDG60,000 ($9,800) ransom for their release. One of the kidnapped was released after his family came up with SDG20,000 ($3,255) for the gang. “They had held them somewhere south of Tokar area,” a family member explained.</div>
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A police official has attributed the increase in the activities of human trafficking gangs in eastern Sudan to complicity of police officers and security apparatus officials with the gangs, by receiving bribes in exchange for facilitating their movements and operations. The kidnapping and trafficking of refugees and Sudanese in the eastern parts of the country increased significantly <a href="https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/risk-of-human-trafficking-grown-in-eastern-sudan-party" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #29a4d9; font-size: 13.6px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">this year</a>.</div>
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