Reports

Fuel shortage in Egypt leads to rising tensions; citizens fear possible price hikes, more unrest

By | 2012-01-17T10:14:38-04:00 January 17th, 2012|Reports|

Many drivers have reached the pumps only to find fuel had run out, stoking tensions in a nation already reeling from months of political unrest and leaving many people frustrated that the uprising that ousted Hosni Mubarak in February last year has not yielded the economic dividend they expected.

Fears that fractured Nigeria could again push the nation to civil war

By | 2012-01-16T15:52:44-04:00 January 16th, 2012|Reports|

The volcano of public rage has erupted at the same time that a spate of bombings and shootings by a shadowy Islamist sect is threatening to fracture the country's sensitive north-south, Muslim-Christian divide. This religious faultline has caused sectarian conflict claiming thousands of lives in the past.