Despite the results, Wednesday (18), of a new confusion with wounded at Kabul airport, in the rush to leave Afghanistan after the seizure of local power by the Taliban, the US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and the Chief of the General Staff, Gen. Mark Milley, says the situation in the country is safe. In … Read more
As US troops retreat from Afghanistan, ending Washington’s longest war in history, a new era has begun for a country that has seen invading forces move in and out of its territory for centuries . The news was dominated by Taliban forces quickly taking control of provincial capitals and taking Kabul without resistance, beyond the … Read more
In a week where the ghosts of Christmas past haunt geopolitics, like the years of Soviet occupation of Afghanistan that sort of led to the Taliban wars, an anniversary is missing the headlines. This Thursday (19) marks the 30th anniversary of the start of the failed coup against what remained of the government of Mikhail … Read more
The article “Diary of a Refugee: Venezuelan Tells the Experience of Migration in Brazil” was one of the winners of the South American Migration Journalism Prize. The prize is organized by the regional office of IOM (International Organization for Migration), the United Nations agency dealing with the issue. The report, by journalist Flávia Mantovani with … Read more
Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine was to be one of Africa’s most important weapons in the fight against the coronavirus. The American company has pledged to sell enough doses of its low-cost single-dose vaccine to ultimately immunize a third of the continent’s population. And it would be produced in part by a South African manufacturer, … Read more
When Joe Biden said last Monday that it was a mistake to “fight indefinitely in a conflict which is not in the national interest of the United States,” he did more than provide a twisted excuse for the withdrawal that let millions of Afghans turn around. in the hands of the Taliban savages. Between the … Read more
The ongoing horror parade in Afghanistan has US presenters alerting viewers with each new video: the images below are shocking, inappropriate for children. But press attention to the longest war in U.S. history was comparable to that of bored children – until images of bodies falling from planes exploded on the screens. Then the rush … Read more
In the UK, the chaotic exit from Afghanistan drew comparisons not with helicopters leaving Saigon, but with an earlier defeat: the Suez Canal Crisis of 1956, in which humiliated Britain was forced to withdraw from Egypt after failing. Nasser (1918-1970). The problem is that the UK had little influence over the timing or tactics of … Read more
The mistakes of the withdrawal of the US military from Afghanistan began with the choice of the date: it should have been done during the local winter, when the snow made it difficult to travel through the mountains, and not in the summer, as it ended up happening, analyzes Michael Rubin, former Pentagon adviser in … Read more
The Taliban want to regain possession of the fleet of Brazilian A-29 Super Tucano fighters which escaped the final takeover last weekend by the fundamentalist group that ruled Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001. Not just him: the United States is taking steps with Uzbekistan so that the plane, bought in Embraer by the US Air … Read more