Author: |Posted: 10:37 am on 23/09/09
Category: World News Blog
Here’s an African love story.
Adebe married her childhood sweetheart, Daniel, in Addis Ababa when she was 22. The trouble was, although Daniel was born in Ethiopia, he was of Eritrean stock, and when the two countries went to war, he was deported to Asmara, the Eritrean capital, where he was forced to join the army.
Adebe couldn’t bear the separation and fled to Sudan. When Daniel heard she was there, he deserted and escaped and joined his wife in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum. It was hard there so after a few months, they decided to try to make it to Europe. It took them two weeks to cross the Sahara desert to Libya, the launchpad for boats to Italy.
Author: |Posted: 4:31 pm on 02/09/09
Category: Gary Gibbon on Politics
The most interesting line in Gordon Brown’s statement today was the most gnomic. “Were we right to spell out to ourselves the consequences of both eventualities, whether it was a Scottish decision for his release or for him remaining in prison? Yes – to have failed to have done so… would’ve been failing in our duty.”
Author: |Posted: 2:41 pm on 24/08/09
Category: Gary Gibbon on Politics
There is another level to the Prime Minister’s decision to sit out the Libya/Lockerbie saga in stony silence.
Yes, there are UK/Libya trade upsides to the decision which the Prime Minister won’t want to jeopardise. There are post-devolution constitutional niceties to be observed. But this is also about the Scottish political battle.
From the moment Alex Salmond snatched power in Edinburgh, Gordon Brown and his team expected the SNP government to lay traps for the Westminster government, create friction points that would add to resentment against London. read more
Author: |Posted: 11:24 am on 10/07/09
Category: World News Blog
I am losing count of the Gs. Yesterday we had the G8 + G5 (including China and India) + 1. The 1 was Egypt.
Today we have the G8 + 9 + 7, which includes African nations and international institutions like the UN, but perhaps we should take away 1 from that list – so G8 + 9 + 7 – 1, because the Chinese president flew home to handle riots on day one of this summit.
