INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP Iraq’s Provincial Elections: The Stakes Baghdad/Brussels, 27 January 2009: Elections on Saturday have a potential to make still fragile Iraq more stable by reversing severe imbalances in provincial governance created four years ago, which generated deep grievances and widespread violence. Iraq’s Provincial Elections: The Stakes,* the latest International Crisis Group report, examines [...]

Greenpeace calls for Obama to assert authority and replace officials Washington DC, USA, 27 January 2009 – Just days after the inauguration of President Obama, appointees from the Bush administration who are still in place are already attempting to undermine his foreign policy on whaling. According to news reports [1] out of Hawaii, US Commissioner [...]

INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP – NEW MEDIA RELEASE Conflict Risk Alert: DR Congo Nairobi/Brussels, 27 January 2009: The Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda have struck a deal for military cooperation that risks a new escalation of combat in the eastern Congo and an even greater humanitarian crisis without assurances that it will solve the region’s [...]