Thursday, May 27, 2021
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Police being transformed into public friendly force: IGP - Pakistan Observer
Punjab Inspector General of Police (IGP) Inam Ghani said that steps are being taken for effective use of modern technology and available resources to improve police service delivery system and transform the Punjab Police a public-support-force and promote...
Challenges after US troops withdrawal - Pakistan Observer
President Biden has announced that the United States will withdraw all remaining military forces from Afghanistan before September 11, 2021 — likely marking a definitive end to America’s longest war just months before its two-decade anniversary. The decision fundamentally changes...
USIP Peace Teachers Program Announces 2021-2022 Cohort
(Washington, D.C.) – The U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) has chosen the following teachers to participate in the Institute’s 2021-2022 Peace Teachers Program: Jessica Culver of Ozark High School in Ozark, Arkansas; Haydee Rodriguez of Central Union High School in El Centro, California; Erin Sullivan of Cab Calloway School of the Arts in Wilmington, Delaware; David Pearl of Yarmouth High School in Yarmouth, Maine; Matthew Morrison of International Academy in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan; and Kim Warren of Utah International Charter School in Salt Lake City, Utah.
'Painful' Myanmar engagement sows rage as ASEAN seeks envoy - Nikkei Asia
Protesters returned to the streets of Mandalay last Saturday, stamped on the flag of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and then burned it. A student leader in Myanmar's second-largest city said opponents of the junta, the State Administration Council, will...
China's Uyghur 'Reeducation': Needles in Pregnant Bellies, Under Fingernails - Newsweek
he horrors of the "reeducation camps" for Uyghurs in the Xinjiang region of northwest China are now coming to light, thanks to an independent tribunal now meeting in London. The stories the center's "students" are telling are not for the faint of heart. Speaking to...
Biden not seeking to add countries to Quad to counter China - The Washington Times
Biden administration officials say they are not pushing to add other countries to the strategic U.S.-India-Japan-Australia “Quad” group but stress that the future of American policy in the Indo-Pacific region hinges on the deepening alignment among...
Episode 9: U.S. Africa relations a time for reset, Dr. Joseph Sany – Africa Prime
Joseph N. Sany is the Vice President of the newly established Africa Center. For the past 20 years, Joseph has been working on peacebuilding with civil society, governments, businesses and international organizations in Africa. Prior to joining USIP...
Why Huawei’s Much Ridiculed New OS Could Still Have a Big Impact in Africa - The China Africa Project
Huawei officially launched HarmonyOS this week, its new mobile operating system. The company was forced to build its own in-house OS after the Trump administration banned it from accessing key U.S. technologies including Alphabet’s Android. While Harmony is widely derided...
‘Egypt is a very useful partner for a declining France’ says analyst - The Africa Report
France may talk the talk when it comes to its concerns over Egypt's handling of human rights, but at the end of the day, the African country is its best customer of arms and closest ally in the fight against political Islam. When French President Emmanuel Macron visited Egypt in January 2019, he...
Scott Worden Gives An Update On The Afghanistan Troop Withdrawal - Sirius XM
Scott Worden is director of Afghanistan and Central Asia programs at the U.S. Institute of Peace joining me with his perspective on where things stand in Afghanistan. So let's talk a little Afghanistan ... where do with stand on the force withdrawal?