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AfricaSource

Aug 13, 2014

Select Countries’ African Trade Partners

By James Attwell and Joshua Meservey

Today’s graphs show selected trading heavyweights and their five largest African trading partners, along with the trade volume by US dollar amount per country. The BRICS countries minus China are presented in a bar graph for ease of comparison.

NATO exercise in Slovakia, June 17, 2013

NATOSource

Aug 13, 2014

NATO Summit Must Make Further Progress on Smart Defense

By Richard Weitz, World Politics Review

Next month’s NATO summit needs to make greater progress on so-called Smart Defense, the alliance-wide effort to get more collective benefits out of individual members’ defense budgets.

NATO Security & Defense

MENASource

Aug 13, 2014

Top News: ISIS Seizes More Territory in Syria

By MENASource

Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) insurgents have seized several towns and villages from rival groups in the Syrian province of Aleppo. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the new territory would open the way for ISIS to advance further westward.

MENASource

Aug 13, 2014

Top News: US Calls on Egypt to Investigate Raba’a Deaths in Response to HRW Report

By EgyptSource

  The United States, on Tuesday, called on the Egyptian government to investigate the violence that left approximately a thousand people dead, according to a recent Human Rights Watch (HRW) report.

MENASource

Aug 13, 2014

EconSource: Economic Confidence Index Declines in the Middle East

By EconSource

Follow the latest in economic news and developments about the Arab transition countries. 

A cave facility in Norway used by the US military, 1997

NATOSource

Aug 13, 2014

Pentagon Increasing Its Arsenal of Weapons in Norway’s Caves

By Dan Lamothe, Washington Post

In the heart of Norway’s countryside, the U.S. military is bolstering its arsenal of weapons with tanks, gun trucks and other armored vehicles along with hundreds of containers of equipment.

Iraq NATO

MENASource

Aug 13, 2014

Saving Syria Is No Fantasy

By Frederic C. Hof

In June 2014, the Obama administration asked Congress for $500 million to train and equip nationalist Syrian rebels battling both the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and the Assad regime.

Syria

MENASource

Aug 13, 2014

Tunisia: The Last Best Hope for the Arab Spring

By Mohsin Khan and Svetlana Milbert

The uprisings that swept the Arab world began with the overthrow of President Ben Ali of Tunisia in January 2011. Egypt, Libya, Syria, and Yemen quickly emulated Tunisia’s example, giving hope to those countries’ citizens that major transformations were underway to meet their political and economic aspirations.

North Africa
Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Dec. 4, 2013

NATOSource

Aug 12, 2014

NATO Chief Sees ‘High Probability’ of Russian Military Intervention in Ukraine

By Adrian Croft, Reuters

NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Monday he saw a “high probability” that Russia could intervene militarily in eastern Ukraine and that NATO detected no sign that Moscow was pulling back thousands of troops from close to the Ukrainian border.

NATO Russia

AfricaSource

Aug 12, 2014

Africa’s Exports and Imports

By James Attwell and Joshua Meservey

Today’s map documents the primary imports and exports, and primary export destinations, of all African countries (excluding Swaziland, for which there is no recent data). China leads the pack as the primary export destination for fourteen countries, while nine countries export primarily to Europe. Most of the latter are in North Africa, unsurprising given those […]

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