What is Ankara seeking to achieve from its attempts at rapprochement with Egypt and why now
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The Border Violence Monitoring Network is an independent network of NGOs and associations that monitors human rights violations at the external borders of the EU
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Political and ethnic score-settling appears to have pushed Ethiopia to the brink of open civil war
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While attention relative to the Libyan conflict focuses on the bifurcation between east and west, the south is ignored despite its festering and growing security challenges, writes Khaled Okasha
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From the disarray of the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt under President Al-Sisi has risen to regional and international prominence with a record of successes
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The recent play of events in Syria shows the depth of Turkey’s strategic interest in Libya
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Egypt’s recently tabled initiative on Libya, aiming to disassemble the structures of strife and conflict, is a mature proposal around which all concerned parties should coalesce
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The Arab coalition was on the verge of taking from the Houthis in Yemen the port city of Hodeida, but stopped. Why, asks Khaled Okasha
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In the throes of sectarian and proxy conflicts, the region in recent years saw not only a proliferation of terrorist organisations, but interwoven interests that kept terrorism itself alive
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