Is Afghanistan being left to fend for itself?
Al JazeeraOn Wednesday, December 2 at 19:30 GMT: Afghanistan’s security vacuum Afghanistan is bracing for further security challenges following the US’s announcement that it will nearly halve its troop presence in the country. On November 17 Sagasti became Peru’s third president in the space of a week, following the impeachment of Martin Vizcarra by Congress and the resignation of Vizcarra’s successor Manuel Merino amid continuing street protests. Many of those of who joined street protests against Vizcarra’s impeachment amid unproven corruption allegations consider his removal to be “a legislative coup”, and are now pushing for constitutional amendments. Placing ‘virtual’ ribbons on maps of the Atlantic sea bed would memorialise Africans who died at sea during long voyages along transatlantic slave passages, a group of academics, researchers, and Michael Kanu, Sierra Leone’s Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations, says in a report published in Marine Policy. And they hope West African countries can soon present the report to the UN’s International Seabed Authority, which regulates mineral activity on international seabeds beyond national jurisdictions.
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