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The Arab Spring brought about regime change in three African states – Tunisia, Egypt and Libya. Popular uprisings in other states — Algeria, Angola, Cameroon, Gabon, Burkina Faso, Malawi,...
This week, until 25 November, diplomats from some 100 States will meet in Geneva for the Fourth Review Conference of the Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW). High on the agenda is a new...
On the 2nd of October 2011, Egypt’s military ruler Field Marshall Mohammed Hussien Tantawi testified in the trial of the ousted president Hosni Mubarak. In his testimony, Tantawi denied that the...
Former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was killed yesterday as fighters battling to complete an eight-month-old uprising against his rule overran his hometown Sirte.
“From the cowardice which shrinks from new truth, from the laxness that is content with half-truth, from the arrogance that thinks it knows all truth, oh God of truth, deliver us!”(2) When it...
The crumbling of North African (NA) regimes holds serious challenges for international law on the African continent. Traditional international law refrained from prescribing to states which forms...
A mainly desert territory in north-west Africa, Western Sahara is the subject of a decades-long dispute between Morocco and the Algerian-backed Polisario Front. A guerrilla war in the region ended...