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Hariri Center Director Michele Dunne and Senior Fellow Amy Hawthorne reflect on US policy toward the Middle East and North Africa in the two years since President Barack Obama promised to make it a top priority to support democracy and human rights in the region.
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J. Peter Pham, director the Atlantic Council’s Michael S. Ansari Africa Center, was one of four experts invited to address a high-level international conference on the crisis in the Sahel region convened today in The Hague.
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Rudolph Atallah, senior fellow in the Atlantic Council’s Michael S. Ansari Africa Center, testified at a House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs hearing on “The Growing Crisis in Africa’s Sahel Region.”
Mihaela Carstei on the US-Canada Keystone Pipeline Project (CTV)
On the heels of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s visit to the United States, Energy & Environment Program Associate Director Mihaela Carstei joins CTV to discuss the Keystone Pipeline project that would transport tar sands oil from Canada and the northern United States to refineries in the Gulf coast of Texas.
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British Royal Navy Repels Pirate Attack, Two Killed
Neil Richard Leslie | November 13, 2008The British Royal Navy has repelled a pirate attack on a Danish cargo ship off the coast of Yemen, reports the BBC. Two Somali pirates and one Yemeni national were killed in the ensuing clash. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) confirmed the incident took place Tuesday, when HMS Cumberland crew members tried to board a traditional wooden dhow. The Yemeni-flagged vessel was identified as having been involved in an earlier attack on the Danish shi.
Pirates have been causing havoc in one of the world's busiest shipping areas, making the waters off the Horn of Africa some of the world's most dangerous. Pirates have hijacked more than 30 ships so far this year, twice as many as last year, with the ransoms paid to them by governments or ship-owners far higher than in previous years. Somali pirates are believed to be responsible for nearly a third of all reported attacks on ships.
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