Tag Archives : failed state

Either Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is already senile (that’s understandable at his ancient age) or he is really just a mouthpiece of his military junta and political cabal. He has been ranting and raving about the enemies of his state while turning a blind eye and a deaf ear to the objective and sordid reality of his land. One of his latest [...]

The pirates are definitely winning the battle of the seas. Pirate attacks continue. The piracy trade continues to flourish. Piracy is a crime. Criminality has its root cause in other socioeconomic conditions. Pirates are the same thieves, kidnappers, hijackers, and marauders. Only, their crime scene happens to be the sea. This is the reason why piracy [...]

Somalia’s parliament has unanimously approved the application of Islamic law or Sharia in the country. This decision is but an endorsement of a resolution made more than a month ago by the cabinet, as well as a logical result of the election in late January of an Islamist as President of Somalia, Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed. This does not come as [...]

Somali Islamists are good at assault rifles. They even have a training camp just outside the Somali capital of Mogadishu. They are known to have links to al-Qaeda, and have regrouped. Somalia is infamously known for two things: relentless and fearless pirates along the Gulf of Aden and the country being pronounced a failed state. Somalia has been beset [...]