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Migrants crowd the inflatable dinghy rescue vessel “Denaro” (not in picture) as the Italian Coast Guard approaches them, off the Libyan coast, in the Mediterranean Sea, on April 22, 2015. (Alessandro Di Meo/ANSA via AP Photo)

Opinion: Death Boats and the Missing Solution for Libya

by Osman Mirghani | Apr 24, 2015 | Opinion

While the EU is actively responding to the “death boats” tragedy that has seen thousands of bodies washed ashore in Europe, the Arab world seems to be unconcerned about the victims or the issue that concerns us more than anyone else. Almost all of those boats set sail...

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A handout picture released by the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) on March 4, 2015 shows Syrian President Bashar al-Assad giving an interview to Portuguese broadcaster RTP in Damascus. (AFP)

Opinion: The US’s ambiguous stance on Syria

by Osman Mirghani | Mar 21, 2015 | Opinion

I am surprised that people were surprised by the recent remarks made by the US Secretary of State John Kerry about the necessity to negotiate with the Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad as a means to guarantee a political transition and an end to the war in Syria. The...

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Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir looks on during a meeting with former South African President and head of African Union High-Level Implementation Panel (AUHIP) Thabo Mbeki (unseen) in Khartoum on September 10, 2014. (AFP Photo/Ashraf Shazly)

Opinion: When will we see the back of Bashir?

by Osman Mirghani | Mar 14, 2015 | Opinion

I do not know why the Sudanese regime has taken the trouble to hold sham elections that pretty much everyone sees through and whose outcome is already known. If President Omar Al-Bashir simply extends his term in office by another five years—that is, in addition to...

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A Shi’ite Houthi rebel walks along a street in Sanaa October 16, 2014. (REUTERS/Mohamed Al-Sayaghi)

Opinion: Saudi Arabia is surrounded on two sides

by Osman Mirghani | Mar 7, 2015 | Opinion

We have hard many warnings, from different parties, that Yemen is on the brink of a devastating civil war. After seizing control of the capital Sana’a and several other strategic areas, including seaports and airports, the Houthi militia is now preparing to take over...

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A handout picture released by the Middle East News Agency (MENA) shows Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi (C), surrounded by top military generals, as he addresses journalists following an emergency meeting of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) in Cairo on January 31, 2015. (AFP Photo/MENA/HO)

Opinion: The Trap Set for Egypt

by Osman Mirghani | Feb 21, 2015 | Opinion

Egypt launched airstrikes on Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) targets in Libya this week after the group abducted and killed 21 Coptic Christian Egyptians in utterly barbaric fashion, just weeks after ISIS released a video of its horrific immolation and killing...