16 agosto, 2020
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16 agosto, 2020
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A feud over money in Syria’s ruling clan shows a threat to Bashar al-Assad’s authority may ultimately come, not from the battlefield, but from once loyal allies and Syria’s crumbling economy.
By SULEIMAN AL-KHALIDI, MAHA EL DAHAN, TOM PERRY and MICHAEL GEORGY
In May, Syrian tycoon Rami Makhlouf, a cousin and long-time ally of President Bashar al-Assad, took a once unimaginable step.
In a video he published on social media, he lashed out against Assad’s “inhumane” state security forces. “Mr President, the security forces have started attacking people’s freedoms,” Makhlouf said. Continue leyendo →
15 agosto, 2020
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15 agosto, 2020
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As BBC Focus on Africa marks its 60th anniversary, one of its former deputy editors, Ghanaian journalist Elizabeth Ohene, looks back at her time with the radio
programme, how its journalism changed and how it helped shape the continent.
I joined Focus on Africa in September 1986. I left the programme in July 2000.
The team I joined was a small group, dominated totally by Robin White, the editor, and the voice of the programme, Chris Bickerton.
My introduction on air was a shock to the system; an obviously Ghanaian accented English was not exactly what people were used to on Focus on Africa – not the BBC hierarchy and certainly not the listeners.
14 agosto, 2020
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It’s the final installment of our Summer Reading series! Our very own @Judy_Dempsey recommends, «Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain,» a dissection of English paranoia of the EU and Europeans by Fintan O’Toole. See more book ideas here
14 agosto, 2020
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