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pportunities related to international peace, security and development. Africa Nigeria: As a result of suicide attacks on five churches in northern Nigeria that killed 150 people -- considered to be the work of the Islamist group Boko Haram -- and the rise in sectarian violence in the oil-rich southern

first freely-elected President. The stock market, when it reopened the following Monday, July 2, hit a nine-year high. Subsequently, when President Morsi ordered the Parliament—which was dissolved by the military based on a Constitutional Court ruling—to reconvene on July 8, the market tumbled 4.2 per

urate barometer of the level of political tension during the nation's historic political transition. On June 30, Muslim Brotherhood-backed candidate Mohamed Morsi was sworn in as Egypt's first freely-elected President. The stock market, when it reopened the following Monday, July 2, hit a nine-year high. Subs

ical direction, but the radicals hope that this is part of a larger push that will bring them to power across the Islamic world. Like Boko Haram in Nigeria, which hopes to provoke a religious war with the Christians partly in order to achieve power in the Muslim North, radicals use the prospect of a cl

ly part of a local power struggle. Radical Salafists are in a power struggle with the Muslim Brotherhood; attacking the US embassy forces President Morsi (as the radical strategists presumably expected) to side with the US, however slowly or reluctantly. That's a win for the radicals, who want to tar

ing to plan — a big "if' in Egypt — Egyptians who believe in a democratic, civil state theoretically have the remainder of EFTA00657289 President Mohamed Morsi's term of office to get their collective act together. But practically speaking, the short-term political calendar will not allow them such a leng

was anything but a knockout blow. Today a resurgent terrorist movement can point to significant achievements in the Libya-Mali theater, in northern Nigeria, Syria, Iraq, Yemen and elsewhere. The closure of 20 American diplomatic facilities this month was a major moral victory for the terrorists, demon

he U.S. government for "offensive" anti-Semitic charges that Israel was behind the overthrow of Egypt's President Mohammed Morsi. Compared with Mr. Morsi, however, Mr. Erdogan is a Bismarck of effective governance and smart policy. Mr. Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood were quite simply not ready for

nt a chance to reap a demographic dividend, using its young and growing workers to boost economic growth. The story varies from country to country. Nigeria and Ethiopia, Africa's most populous countries, will together add 30 million workers -- an increase in their workforces of about 35 percent by 2020

13:58:55 +0000 1 September, 2012 Article 1. Wall Street Journal Why Israel Doesn't Trust Obama Editorial Article 2. The Independent (London) Morsi's slap in the face brings Ahmadinejad back to square one Peter Popham Article 3. NYT Republicans, in Search of a Foreign Policy Brian Katulis