According to a controversial report commissioned by the United Nations, former Ivorian President Laurent Gbabo’s exiled allies are recruiting Islamists from Northern Mali to destabilize the current government of President Alassane Ouattara.
The Libyan authorities have so far failed to carry out their pledge to investigate the death of Libya’s former dictator, his son Mutassim, and dozens of others in rebel custody following the death of Gaddafi in 2011.
New evidence has emerged this week that the Syrian Air Force has used cluster munitions in strikes near the main highway that runs through Ma`arat al-Nu`man, the site of a major confrontation between government and rebel forces.
The conflict in Syria leaves western powers with no good choices, and their agony is intensified by Islamist advances in west Africa. The search for intelligent security responses goes on.
The Turkish people and their reflective media see their Syrian neighbours as brothers, and do not want to get involved in a war that would quickly become messy and bloody for all involved.