For the second year in a row, U.S. President Barack Obama has waived a Congressionally-mandated ban on military aid for four countries that use child soldiers.
The US's proxy war in Somalia has led to the arming and empowering of warlords and an almost unthinkable rise in the influence and power of Al Qaeda and the Shabab.
John Feffer, Foreign Policy in Focus. August 19, 2011.
As population rates skyrocket, millions of mouths to feed increase pressure on the world's farmers to squeeze more and more food from less and less arable land.
Since May 20th, there have been 14 reported incidents on the Red Sea, despite the monsoons, which many hoped would prohibit small attack boat activity.
An investigation in Somalia uncovers secret sites that include counterterrorism training for Somali intelligence agencies and secret prisons, operated by the CIA.
Fifty-nine journalists have been killed around the world so far this year, in an alarming rise from 2008 that has become a "bloodbath" of the media, a watchdog said Thursday.
