Tag Archives: Africa

Anti-Russia Sentiment on the Rise in Arab World

By James Kimer | Published: August 29, 2011

Australian newspaper The National has a summary translation of a column published in Al Hayat: Russia’s less-than-enthusiastic stance on the Arab Spring, and its high tolerance for repressive Arab regimes, raise many questions about Moscow’s real interests in the region, wrote Abdullah Iskandar, managing editor of the pan-Arab newspaper Al Hayat, in a column yesterday. [...]

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Russia’s Fear of a Free Libya

By Robert Amsterdam | Published: August 27, 2011

In a rather dramatic statement, Aram Shegunts of the Russia-Libya Business Council told Reuters “We have lost Libya completely.” Might he be overstating the case? The geopolitical impact of the fall of Gaddafi is much more difficult to assess, but it does not necessarily include a deterioration of Russian influence in North African oil and gas production.

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Video: Boko Haram Suspected in UN Bombing in Abuja

By James Kimer | Published: August 26, 2011

News is just breaking of a terrible suicide bombing at a United Nations office in Abuja, Nigeria.  Reports state that 16-20 were killed and some 60 people injured when a suicide bomber drove a car packed with explosives into the reception doors of the building.  Police suspect that the radical Islamic group Boko Haram may [...]

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Amsterdam & Peroff LLP Joins Legal Team of Nigerian Politician Yusuf Tuggar to Fight Electoral Fraud Case

By James Kimer | Published: August 5, 2011

The following press release was distributed via wire this morning: London, August 5, 2011 — International law firm Amsterdam & Peroff LLP has been retained to assist the legal team of Mallam Yusuf Maitama Tuggar, a popular Nigerian politician, in an alleged case of massive electoral fraud in the gubernatorial elections of the state of [...]

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Salisu Suleiman: The Post-Election in Nigeria

By James Kimer | Published: May 4, 2011

It was not dissimilar to the opening of an action film. All land, air and sea borders of Nigeria were locked down, preventing anyone from leaving or entering the country

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Salisu Suleiman: Nigeria’s Political Economy Tested by Elections

By James Kimer | Published: April 18, 2011

[The following guest contribution to the blog comes from Nigerian journalist and political analyst Salisu Suleiman, who writes for NEXT Newspaper, among other publications. Read his first of three installments here. - Editor] The presidential elections held this past weekend in Nigeria are being closely watched by the international business community, as they pose serious [...]

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Salisu Suleiman: Nigeria’s Make or Break Elections

By James Kimer | Published: April 1, 2011

[From time to time on this blog we have given coverage to political risk issues in other petroleum and emerging market economies aside from Russia, with a special focus on Nigeria, where the law firm has worked over the past number of years.  Today we're pleased to present the first of three in-depth analysis articles [...]

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International Law and the Libya Intervention

By Robert Amsterdam | Published: March 24, 2011

The whirlwind process by which the international community, ranging from the Arab League, European Union, and, most critically, the United Nations, laid the legal foundations approving the military intervention in Libya is nothing short of breathtaking. The adoption of Resolution 1973 on March 17 by the United Nations Security Council (which notably was not vetoed [...]

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Hague’s Revolution

By Robert Amsterdam | Published: March 23, 2011

It is no secret that the current wave of pro-democracy demonstrations across the Arab world have shaken the foundations of not only every tyrant’s fortress, but also the foundations of leading foreign policy doctrines. This tug-of-war, which has always existed between values such as human rights and democratic freedoms vs. the calculated interests of realist [...]

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Huda Seif: Shaken Regimes Get Desperate

By James Kimer | Published: March 4, 2011

In the current surge of pro-democracy movements against the dictators of the Arab world, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s regime appears determined to stay in power at any cost. Using a full range of lethal force and no hesitation in violating international laws, he maintains a strong grip on Tripoli and some Western enclaves. At the same [...]

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