Cape Verde

January 25, 2023 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

How human rights activists chased off Venezuela’s strongman

The strongman leader of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, was due to attend a heads of state summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States in Buenos Aires on Monday. Maduro planned to hold important...

January 12, 2022 | Emanuele Ottolenghi, Toby Dershowitz

Iran’s Mohsen Rezaee Should Face Justice

If Rezaee travels with impunity, Iran will seek to further push the limits, and legitimize the accused in the same way that it has done with near impunity in the nuclear file.

September 13, 2021 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Corrupt Venezuelan Officials Face Impending Extradition to United States

The constitutional court of the African island nation of Cape Verde last week authorized the extradition of Colombian businessman Alex Saab to the United States, while Spanish police arrested former Venezuelan...

September 10, 2021 | Aykan Erdemir |

Businessman’s Extradition to U.S. Could Expose Turkish-Venezuelan Collusion to Evade Sanctions

Cape Verde’s constitutional court issued a ruling on September 7 paving the way for the extradition of Alex Saab, a U.S.-designated Colombian-born businessman whom U.S. prosecutors indicted in 2019 for...

November 9, 2020 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Is Iran Sending Weapons to Venezuela? And How Is the U.S. Responding?

An Iranian cargo plane gets stranded in Senegal on its way to Caracas.

January 18, 2012 | Thomas Joscelyn The Long War Journal

Algerian Court Sentences Ex-Gitmo Detainee to 3 Years in Prison

An Algerian court sentenced an ex-Guantanamo detainee to three years in prison on Monday for his involvement with an extremist group. Prosecutors had sought a 10-year prison sentence for Nadji Ab...

June 15, 2011 | World Defense Review

São Tomé and Príncipe: An African Exception?

That the Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe might somehow escape the various "traps" – ethnic conflict, the "resource curse," poor governance, etc. – en...

June 15, 2011 | World Defense Review

Criminal Networks in West Africa: An Emerging Security Challenge

On April 30, Sidi Ould Sidna, a.k.a. Abou Jendel, an al-Qaeda-linked militant who was escaped earlier in the month from the courthouse in Nouakchott, Mauritania, where he was being tried for the...

June 13, 2011 | World Defense Review

Troubled Paradise: The Mixed Success of the African Union’s Intervention in the Comoros

Located at the northern end of the Mozambique Channel off the east coast of the Africa, the Comoros Islands – Ngazidja (Grande Comore), Mwali (Mohéli), Nzwani (Anjouan), and Mahor&ea...

January 13, 2011 | World Defense Review

Côte d’Ivoire Crisis: Some Lessons to Be Learned

In my review last week of Africa's likely top flash points for 2011, I expressed my concern that The year that was supposed to be Côte d'Ivoire's "ann...

July 22, 2010 | Thomas Joscelyn Long War Journal

Algerian Government Denies Reports of Former Gitmo Detainee’s Mistreatment

The Algerian government today denied reports that it was detaining and mistreating a former Guantanamo detainee. The ex-Gitmo detainee, Abdul Aziz Naji, was repatriated to Algeria earlier this we...

July 19, 2010 | The Long War Journal

Two Gitmo Detainees Transferred to Algeria, Cape Verde

The Department of Defense announced the transfer of two Guantanamo detainees today. Abdul Aziz Naji, a native of Algeria, was repatriated to his home country. Abd-al-Nisr Mohammed Khantumani, a S...

June 6, 2007 | Dr. J. Peter Pham World Defense Review

Securing the New Strategic Gulf

In his 2006 State of the Union address, President George W. Bush issued a call for the United States to "replace more than 75 percent of our oil imports from the Middle East by 2025" and to "make...