Apr 15, 2012 | Africa, Passage au crible (English), Security, Terrorism
By Philippe Hugon Translation: Pierre Chabal
In Mali, in a context of failure of both political power and of the army, Touareg rebels of the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (NMLA or MNLA), acting jointly with Islamic movements have unilaterally proclaimed…
Feb 28, 2012 | Africa, China, Development, Passage au crible (English), Security
By Philippe Hugon Translation: Melissa Okabe
Meetings dedicated to food security multiplied at the beginning of 2012, while studies reporting the assessment of land transactions show that between 2000 and 2010, on 200 million hectares of monopolized land…
Dec 20, 2011 | Diplomacy, Passage au crible (English), Security
By Josepha Laroche
Translation: Davina Durgana
Passage au crible n°51
On December 16th, 2011 American soldier Bradley Manning appeared before the military court in Fort Meade, Maryland. He was suspected of having provided Wikileaks between November 2009 and May 2010 American army…
Nov 2, 2011 | Passage au crible (English), Peace, Security
By Jean-Jacques Roche
Translation: Davina Durgana
Passage au crible n°48
The National Council of Transition announced that the former Libyan leader, Mouammar Kadhafi, was killed on October 20th, 2011 and was buried that Tuesday in a secret location somewhere in the Libyan Desert…
May 1, 2011 | environment, Passage au crible (English), Security
By Clément Paule
Translation: Davina Durgana
Passage au crible n°39
According to the May 3rd edition of the Asahi Shimbun journal, the Japanese government has evaluated the sum of compensations to be paid by TEPCO (Tokyo Electric Power Company) to be nearly 50 billion dollars…
May 24, 2010 | Defense, Passage au crible (English), Security, Terrorism
By Jean Jacques Roche
Translation: Melissa Okabe
Passage au crible n°23
On April 12-13 2010, United States President Barack Obama welcomed 47 heads of State and government to the Washington Summit on Nuclear Terrorism. This summit took…