Thomas P.M. Barnett :: Weblog (Free subscription) | 29/11/2008
ARTICLE: African free trade zone is agreed, BBC, 22 October 2008 Good to see for all the reasons cited up front: helps outsider access better, helps intra-continental trade, and created better bargaining position with outside world. (Thanks: David Blair)...
Uganda Watch (Free subscription) | 29/11/2008
"Africa's children will only be safe when this mystical psychopath meets his well-deserved end", writes David Blair in the concluding line of the report copied here below. I couldn't agree more. News has just come in from the BBC that mediators are returning to their base after Joseph Kony failed to sign a peace deal. The mediation team is expected to return to the remote area near the...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
The UN is caught in such a thicket of regulations and constraints - and such a snake-pit of mistrust - that it cannot possibly be effective, says David Blair in Goma.
Congo Watch (Free subscription) | 20/11/2008
The Daily Telegraph's Africa correspondent David Blair is in Goma! Trust him to come up with an exclusive report telling us that Rwanda is allowing its territory to be used as a recruiting ground for the rebel movement behind the DR Congo's latest bloodshed, according to first-hand accounts. Here is a copy of the report and accompanying video: The Daily Telegraph, UK DR Congo rebels recruited...
Thomas P.M. Barnett :: Weblog (Free subscription) | 22/11/2008
... big time). Not very helpful in terms of preparing people for the real dynamics ahead. (Thanks: David Blair)
The Why of the World (Free subscription) | 18/11/2008
David Miliband is in Syria, which as David Blair explained in a recent piece for the Telegraph, is a crucial swing state that could propel the Middle East to - or from - peace. Assad'...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 20/11/2008
By David Blair in Goma Last Updated: 11:40AM GMT 20 Nov 2008 of Images A child soldier lines up in eastern Congo Photo: GETTY Most are snatched from their homes and forced to fight Photo: GETTY A wounded soldier waits to recover in hospital Photo: GETTY Evidence gathered by The Daily Telegraph contradicts Rwanda's official denial of any role in the war in the eastern regions of the Democratic...
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 19/11/2008
... cap took the ball from the edge of a ruck on the visitors' line and dived over with stand-off David Blair converting. Six minutes later Rennie then marked his return to competitive action with a similar try, but this time Blair could not add the extras.Most of the play continued in the Georgia half up until the 20-minute mark with Edinburgh asserting pressure in the scrum just...
Planet Rugby (Free subscription) | 18/11/2008
After suffering at the hands of Scotland A on Saturday, Georgia's second tour match against Edinburgh was abandoned on Tuesday after a power cut, which left the match in pitch darkness after 25 minutes.At that point in the match, Edinburgh were comfortably 19-0 ahead courtesy of two tries from Ross Rennie and a score from Greig Laidlaw with David Blair adding two conversions. But the...
Edinburgh Evening News (Free subscription) | 19/11/2008
... in particular, grabbed his chance with two tries while the other came from Greig Laidlaw with David Blair adding two conversions.Skipper Simon Cross, after making an appeal for the match to be replayed this afternoon which fell on deaf ears due to the opposition's tight schedule, had little option but to pick out positives."We focused on controlling possession for the first half and...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 18/11/2008
By David Blair, Diplomatic Editor Last Updated: 5:19PM GMT 18 Nov 2008At a stroke, the Horn of Africa acquired a failed state with 2,000 miles of coastline skirting one of the world's great trade routes.No greater opportunity for piracy could be imagined. Whereas other countries have inefficient police forces and overstretched navies, Somalia has no national institutions whatsoever. Other...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 17/11/2008
By David Blair in Goma Last Updated: 2:48PM GMT 17 Nov 2008General Bipin Rawat, who commands UN troops in North Kivu province, said his troops were denied any element of surprise by having to drive bright white vehicles and give verbal warnings to rebels.He also told the Daily Telegraph that official plans to send another 3,000 soldiers may prove inadequate.North Kivu is the heartland...
normblog (Free subscription) | 14/11/2008
You'll be familiar with the argument that sometimes the demands of justice must give way before the urgent need for peace. It is deployed to urge that perpetrators of crimes against humanity should not be prosecuted if this threatens to aggravate an already acute civil conflict. Interesting to see David Blair turning the thing around today. He proposes that Omar al-Bashir's unilateral...
Edinburgh Evening News (Free subscription) | 13/11/2008
... Kerr earlier this year.He appeared at Edinburgh Sheriff Court yesterday to be sentenced.Solicitor David Blair-Wilson, defending, said Johnston was keen to stay in the Army.
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 13/11/2008
... Kerr earlier this year.He appeared at Edinburgh Sheriff Court yesterday to be sentenced.Solicitor David Blair-Wilson, defending, said Johnston was keen to stay in the Army.
