Author Archives: Sheriff Bah

Sudan President Omar al-Bashir is recovering from hospital in Saudi Ar...

November 7, 2012 no comments

Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir is said to be recovering in a Saudi hospital where he underwent surgery a day after his office announced the visit as a normal medical checkup. Quoting a statement f...

Iran sends two vessels to the gulf of Aden as Sudan blames Israel for ...

October 31, 2012 no comments

The Sudanese army on Monday welcomed two Iranian vessels less than a week after airstrikes blamed on Israel destroyed a weapons factory in Khartoum. The vessels, the helicopter carrier Kharg and dest...

Thousands of African asylum seekers in Italy face eviction as governme...

October 30, 2012 2 comments

The fate of thousands of African migrants who were forced to flee Libya and Tunisia in the wake of the 2011 Arab Spring and risked their lives to sail to Italy hangs in the balance as government fund...

AU-EU set for military intervention in Mali

October 27, 2012 1 comment

The African Union (AU) and its European counterpart, the EU, have in principle agreed on a joint-planning military intervention to oust rebels in northern Mali at a high-level meeting in Paris last w...

Nigeria to review Switzerland’s human rights record amidst risin...

October 25, 2012 no comments

Nigeria is one of three states (called the Troika) tasked by the 47 member-states of the UN Human Rights Council to examine Switzerland’s second report on the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the h...

Libya after Ghadaffi – For better or for worse?

October 24, 2012 1 comment

Despite western euphoria that greeted the NATO-led UN mandate of the “Responsibility to protect” (R2P) as “mission accomplished” following the death of Moamar Ghaddafi a year ago, Libya is still at w...

Libya – The legacy of Muammar Ghadafi

April 16, 2012 1 comment

States whose legitimacy is based on the charisma of an individual’, they say, ‘are bound to disintegrate when they go’. And so it is with Libya where the legacy of 42 years of one-man rule deprived t...

Libya – Reversing the gains of a nation

October 29, 2011 2 comments

The demise of Libya’s Moamar Qathafi who was summarily executed by Libya’s National Transitional Council (NTC) rebel fighters after being wounded in a NATO air strike on his convoy just outside his h...

Switzerland deports African asylum seekers to Italy

October 3, 2011 1 comment

Switzerland has become the second country after France to send hundreds of African asylum seekers back to Italy across their common border, citing legal convention. According to the Dublin II Agreeme...

Threat of Gaddafi delays formation of new cabinet in Libya

October 3, 2011 1 comment

With all but Sirte and Bani Walid now under their control, the decision of Libya’s National Transitional Council (NTC) to delay the formation of a new government citing insecurity has raised the ques...

The Libya uprising – Why pay such a high price?

September 4, 2011 no comments

That Libyans who have lived under the 41-year autocratic rule of Colonel Muamar Qathafi have for some time now wanted to see him go, and its acknowledged even by members of the Colonel’s inner ...

Surviving the mediterranean: Myth or reality

August 6, 2011 no comments

‘Never say never’, they say. But after I had narrowly survived the Sahara crossing in November, 2004, I vowed never to risk my life again on such a perilous journey. Little did I know that seven year...

Afrcan asylum seekers in Italy commemorate the Bologna massacre

August 4, 2011 no comments

31 years since that fateful event of August 2nd 1980, which left 85 dead and more than 200 injured, Italians from across the nation have once again gathered (as they have done every year) at the Bolo...