March 2014 – Page 9 – Addis Standard

Countering violent extremist messaging in the Greater Horn of Africa at the center of ACSS seminar in Addis Ababa

The Africa Center for Strategic Studies (ACSS), the U.S. Embassy in Addis Ababa, and the government of Ethiopia opened a workshop on Countering Violent Extremist Messaging in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on February 24, 2014. The seminar, which runs from February 23 to 28, is being held in collaboration with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), the U.S.

March 3, 2014

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AU High-Level Implementation Panel suspends talks between Sudan and South Sudan

On March 1^st, the African Union High-Level Implementation Panel on Sudan and South Sudan suspended negotiations between the Government of Sudan (GoS) and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N) on the conflict in the “Two Areas” of Blue Nile and South Kordofan.

March 3, 2014

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Topic of the Month

Arab prospects beyond the Arab Spring

Tarek Osman

In December 2013, at a makeshift cultural center in downtown Cairo, a young Sudanese recited poems from The Papers of Room No. Eight, a collection written by the Egyptian poet Amal Donkol weeks before his death in 1983. He finished his recitation with the poignant “Do not dream of a happy world”; tears sparkled in the eyes of the elderly woman next to me. It was a fitting reflection on current conditions in the Arab world nearly three years after the start of what came to be known as the “Arab Spring.”

March 3, 2014

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Countering violent extremist messaging in the Greater Horn of Africa at the center of ACSS seminar in Addis Ababa

AU High-Level Implementation Panel suspends talks between Sudan and South Sudan

Arab prospects beyond the Arab Spring

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