The UN High Commission for Refugees estimates there are currently over 70 MILLION people who have been forced to flee their homes: anti-immigrant/refugee backlash is growing as well. WHERE ARE YOU? By that I don’t mean where you live now or where you were born (at least not necessarily). No, what I am getting at […]
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On this day in 2006, members of Abu Sayyaf knocked on the door of a farm in the Philippines province of Mindanao and opened fire on Christian residents.
Those in the LGBTQ communities have had it hard enough over the millennia without having to deal with hate-inspired killings.
Nationalist movements will resort to violence if some see it as advancing their cause. When it comes to colonial powers what comes to mind? I would imagine that you would first proffer countries like England, France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany. Even Italy had an overseas territory in the Horn of Africa and Libya. All […]
Why the West African nation of Nigeria is faced with a serious terrorism problem that it seems unable to defeat.
On this day in 2012 a bomb blast killed two Somali policemen and four refugees close to a camp for displaced people in Mogadishu.
On this day in 2016, four worshipers were killed in a suicide bombing at a mosque, five days after a similar attack left 12 people dead.
On January 17, 2012 five foreign tourists were killed in Ethiopia in an attack by unknown gunmen in the northern Afar region.
Three young men from a non-descript southern Ontario city ended up fighting for AQ in Africa. What are the chances of that happening?
Tunisia is often seen as a role model for the Arab world: the reality is very different indeed.