Nigeria is clamping down on its infamous email scammers. But it is law enforcement enough? Lagos, Nigeria—Remember that Nigerian prince who contacted you a few months back, saying he needed assistance transferring his inheritance to the United States. If you…
Chatter Chatter
BY SHUBHA BALA Sweating upstairs in my private room, waiting for anything, waiting for 604800 seconds. An entire week. The autobiography of Gandhi, with its Indian pages, too thin and too smooth, sprawled out on the floor beside my bed. …
Afghan Deployment Questioned
BY SARA SCHONHARDT NEW YORK – President Barack Obama announced a changeover from one war to another Friday when he outlined his timetable for withdrawal from Iraq and committed an additional 17,000 troops to Afghanistan. The move comes weeks…
France Is Back
BY ANITA KIRPALANI Nicolas Sarkozy has struck again with his politics of reform. But this time, by deciding to bring France back into NATO’s military command, he swiped at the mythology of his own political family. It is too bad…
Should Sudan’s Leader Go On Trial?
BY EAMON KIRCHER-ALLEN Images in the Save Darfur Coalition’s television advertisements tug at the heart: a child who has been raped; a man with a bloody stump where his arm should be; another man, in tears, recalling the death of…
Saving Bashir
BY IVA SAVIC It was a Thursday, December 18th 2003, when 28 year-old Bashir Mutzolgov came back from a day trip to his native town of Karabulak in Ingushetia, one of Russia’s mountainous southern republics neighboring Chechnya. He visited his parents…
Whither Pakistan’s Policy?
BY ROZINA ALI After the death of 173 people in the Mumbai attacks, it was not only India but also Pakistan that feared for its safety. As Indian security forces recovered dead bodies from the November 26 carnage, a…