Press Review 21 February 2018

Last update: 2022-04-22 09:54:04

Shifting relationships, growing threats: Who’s who of insurgent groups in the Sahel. In the six years since a separatist rebellion broke out in northern Mali in January 2012, armed groups in West Africa’s Sahel region have grown considerably in both number and the complexity of their ever-evolving relationships with one another (Irin).

 

Egypt's War on Terror Threatening to Become a War on Sinai Bedouin. The peninsula's residents live under the threat of terror on the one hand, and the military crackdowns on the other (Haaretz).

 

The Bigger Story Behind the Saudi Reactor Contest. Geopolitical jockeying for a chance to build two nuclear reactors in Saudi Arabia highlights a potential new arena for superpower rivalry. U.S. allies South Korea and France are among the contenders, as are China and Russia. As Bloomberg reports, the U.S joined the race. 

 

'It's not a war. It's a massacre': scores killed in Syrian enclave. Aid groups warn situation in eastern Ghouta could unfold into worst atrocity of war so far (the Guardian).