Watertight Security Services has been sending Ugandan security guards to Iraq since 2007.
So far, more than 10,000 Ugandans have gone to work in the country.
But what good is your money when you’re dead?
Watertight Security Services has been sending Ugandan security guards to Iraq since 2007.
So far, more than 10,000 Ugandans have gone to work in the country.
But what good is your money when you’re dead?
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Reporters Without Borders managed to give a news conference yesterday in Casablanca but, in a sign of the tension in its relations with the government, was unable to hold it as scheduled in a meeting room of the Royal Al-Mansour Hotel, although communication minister Khalid Naciri had previously given it his blessing.
An improvised news conference was instead held in the hotel’s lobby in the presence of many Moroccan and foreign journalists.
Oh, PS, I was there
(Yeah, this happened like last week though, just forgot to post it)
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Don’t get me wrong or anything, things here in Casablanca are much better than they ever were in Cairo. There is one thing, though, that I have noticed and that I do not approve of- domestic violence. I have seen men beat women openly on my street twice so far (and I’ve only been living at my current apartment for three days… clearly chose the good neighborhood, huh?). The most disgusting thing about it is that no one says anything when it happens, people just continue on their merry little way as if nothing was going on.
EXCUSE ME?! There’s a man beating the lights out of a woman in the middle of the day!! How is this acceptable?! I can only imagine how much domestic violence goes on behind closed doors…
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Never too late to add another piece to a very complicated puzzle, but….
J Street’s goal was to give a voice to a “broad segment of the American Jewish community and other friends of Israel who believe that peace and an end to the conflict is essential for Israel’s security and survival”.
Isn’t that what they ALL say?
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A female journalist in Saudi Arabia has been sentenced to 60 lashes over a TV show in which a Saudi man described his extra-marital sex life.
The programme, made by Lebanese satellite network LBC, caused a huge scandal in conservative Saudi Arabia when it was shown several months ago…
It examined taboos in the Arab world. Unmarried sex in Saudi Arabia amongst Saudis – rather than expatriates – is one of the biggest.
Would someone PLEASE explain to these people that sex happens?
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Hundreds of people in Somalia have been forced to watch Islamist militants executing two people accused of spying…
Somali children’s rights groups say al-Shabaab is intent on brainwashing the young to believe in violent Islamism.
In this way, it can ensure it has a steady supply of recruits, ready to fight for its aim of establishing extreme Islamist rule, not only in Somalia but far beyond its borders.
… lovely…
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The warren of slum alleys is called the Jews’ Quarter, but no Jews live there. The ancient synagogue still stands, but its roof is gone. The government is renovating it, but is doing so at a moment when anti-Israel feeling is running especially high in Egypt…
The Jewish community that once flourished in the Arab world’s most populous nation left behind physical traces ranging from grand temples in central Cairo and Alexandria to a holy man’s humble grave in a Nile Delta village. But the modern-day Egyptian view of those relics lies within a narrow spectrum ranging from disinterest to outright hostility…
Most sites, however, are in the capital, and more than monuments just to the Jews, they are reminders of a more cosmopolitan Middle East, when Cairo and other Arab cities housed a jumble of ethnic minorities in the midst of Muslim majorities.
These sites were constructed before the complicated modern politics that plague the region today. It’s important to preserve these places, if only as a reference to the diversity that once existed in Egypt, in a not so distant past.
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