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Congo: A Good Start

6 November 2013 Congo: A Good Start By Gwynne Dyer Can it really be as easy as that? Get Rwanda to stop supporting the rebels in eastern Congo, pay the soldiers of the Congolese army on time, send in a United Nations force that actually has orders to shoot, and presto! The bad guys surrender …

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Somalia Come-Back

11 April 2013 Somalia Come-Back By Gwynne Dyer There have been no elections in Somalia since 1967 and there won’t be any this year either. But the country has a new parliament (appointed on the advice of clan elders) who have elected a new president, and the new government actually now controls a significant part …

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Palestinians’ New Weapon

4 November 2011 The Palestinians’ New Weapon By Gwynne Dyer The Palestinians have finally come up with a strategy that may produce some results. But only by accident, so to speak. They were fed up with nineteen years of “direct negotiations” with Israel that never made any progress towards a final peace settlement, and Palestinian …

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End-Game in Ivory Coast

29 March 2011 End-Game in Ivory Coast By Gwynne Dyer “The general offensive has begun,”said Seydou Ouattara, the military spokesman of the man who claims to be Ivory Coast’s legitimate president, Alassane Ouattara, on Monday. “We’ve realised that this is the only way to remove [the incumbent president, Laurent Gbagbo].” On the same day Ouattara’s …

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