Mideast Unrest Could Hurt U.S. Recovery
(Wall Street Journal) — The U.S. economy can absorb the hit from the past week’s rise in oil prices, but could stumble anew if continuing Mideast turmoil pushes crude prices significantly higher....
View ArticleFacebook Treads Carefully after Role in Protests
(Washington Post) — In Egypt, the tried-and-true tool for opponents of President Hosni Mubarak in recent years has been Facebook. Most recently, it was on Facebook – which boasts 5 million users in...
View ArticleFacebook Silent on Egyptian Question
(New York Times) — With Facebook playing a starring role in the revolts that toppled governments in Tunisia and Egypt, you might think the company’s top executives would use this historic moment to...
View ArticleIn Ivory Coast the Dead Pile Up
President Laurent Gbagbo's opponents are turning up everywhere. The post In Ivory Coast the Dead Pile Up appeared first on MadameNoire.
View ArticleHaitian Presidential Bids Begin Anew
(Washington Post) — The two candidates in Haiti’s presidential runoff election launched their official campaigns Thursday, providing voters with a sharp contrast in tone and style. Mirlande Manigat, a...
View ArticleWhite House Wants Libyan Officials to Pay
(Wall Street Journal) — The Obama administration, citing reports that hundreds of antigovernment protesters had been killed and injured in Libya, demanded Sunday that Col. Moammar Gadhafi’s regime...
View ArticleIvory Coast Civil War Appears Imminent
(Los Angeles Times) — Reporting from Johannesburg, South Africa — A spasm of deadly violence in Ivory Coast, including the killings of six women who were shot Thursday as they demanded that the...
View ArticleObama Weighs Action on Libya
(AP) — Preparing for the prospect of deeper international intervention, President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron conferred Tuesday on the spectrum of military and humanitarian...
View ArticleBroom Vendors Clean Up During Nigerian Elections
(Wall Street Journal) — At a political rally last week, one of many during this country’s fevered election season, several hundred supporters of the Action Congress of Nigeria political party waved...
View ArticleSomalia Welcomes U.S. Military Action
(Wall Street) — Somalia would welcome a U.S. special-forces attack on al Qaeda-affiliated militants on Somali soil, similar to the strike that killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, said Somali Prime...
View ArticleSouthern Sudan Prepares for Independence Day
The birth of a nation is necessarily fragile. The post Southern Sudan Prepares for Independence Day appeared first on MadameNoire.
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