More than two decades of North-South civil war in Sudan ended in 2005 with the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) by Sudan’s two dominant political forces: the northern-based National Congress Party (NCP) and the southern-based Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM). The CPA...
Piracy, a scourge that had been stamped out in the 19th century, still flourishes in those Hobbesian areas of the world where order and the “rule of law” do not exist. The seizure of a U.S.-flagged vessel, the MaerskAlabama, earlier this month and the subsequent rescue of the ship’s captain by...
Funny how piracy faded from the headlines. Once the captain of the M/V Maersk Alabama was rescued, the television coverage shifted to other topics, and the attention span of the armchair admirals who were calling for an all-out war on sea and land against Somali pirates moved on to the next topic...