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Through sheer grit and a fierce commitment to their tribal and Islamic values, the Afghans have frustrated a series of imperialistic attempts to dominate them. Between 1842 and 2021, the...
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The latest from Afghanistan is that the Taliban are already in Kabul after capturing ten Afghan provincial capitals and that President Ashraf Ghani and his warlord allies have fled to...
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Trafficking in persons is a crime in international law. Article 3(a) of the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons Especially Women and Children provides the sole internationally accepted definition...
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In June 2018, Mohamed Nasheed, Speaker of Parliament and former President, accused China of having dragged the Maldives into a debt trap. He was also critical of the government's high...
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For the most part of 2014, the public did not see much of President Abdulla Yameen Abdul Gayoom, and the administration was mostly seen to be run by the then...
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With the recent failures of the Maldives' intelligence departments in preventing the explosion of an Improvised Explosive Device on 6 May, targeting the Speaker of Parliament Mohamed Nasheed, the public...
