The Christian Science Monitor is reporting that Iran will have enough enriched uranium to make a nuclear bomb by sometime in August. The article is based on a report by the American Enterprise Institute which is a well-known conservative think tank, so there is the real possibility that the threat is overblown. But the timing mentioned correlates precisely with the US election cycle, so we can be sure that discussions about Iranian policy will be front and center in the Presidential campaign.
Hopes for some outside aid to Syrian protesters were dashed as Russia made clear that it would not support any UN action against Assad’s regime unless intervention is explicitly ruled out. The Russian hardline is intriguing as it cannot be explained by any bilateral relationship of which we have any knowledge. It appears as if Russia is simply playing spoiler, and, in the process, supporting Iran.
Senegal is entering into a period of unusual political turmoil as the President tries to run for an unconstitutional third term. West Africa has seen an unusual increase in political violence over the last few years, but Senegal seemed to have avoided the plague. It appears as if that honeymoon is over.
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I hope the honey moon as you call it is not over Professor. I’m Senegalese and I am really alarmed about the situation in my beloved country. Senegalese people are as a matter of course peaceful. We have been enduring the misdemeanour and abuses of the Government for 10 years now with the corruption, the inadequate and immoderate spoiling of the public goods going through. And moreover, the increasing level of the cost of life in Dakar! Senegalese people are (sorry for the term) fed up with that president who wants to establish monarchy in our country by imposing his so perfect son to the people (knowing that he is getting old and disable). I do understand my people reaction eventhough I totaly disaprove it. All this events just cut me off…
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