Hi I am Alex Hicken, back with my second official recorded
world news report since I rebooted my publication. I want to express my
gratitude for all those people who have confidence that I can develop a
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developing the professional skills that he already had expressed. The podcast
“Read the Story of the World” is now on the following five platforms:
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link to the podcast in the show notes, for those who use those podcast services.
Now on to the news report.
We are going to start in Africa today because I saw a tweet yesterday
commemorating nine years since the Libyan civil war.
About ten years ago the Arab Spring began, where most Arab
nations, rose up, seeking their freedoms. Libya was able to remove Colonel
Muammar Gaddafi from his leadership, but nine years after Syria and Libya are
still in turmoil as the civil war in Syria never finished yet. An interesting
coincidence that happen is that the European Union recently agreed to begin a
UN naval and air mission to reduce the violence and destruction between factions
and armies by restraining the weapons trade to Libya. The coincidence that I
saw is that Turkey was sending weapons and ammunition to the army and
Government of National Accord in the Port of Tripoli; however, the Libyan
National Army destroyed the ship. The Libyan National Army seems to want to
reduce the weapons trade too.
One rebel group, called the Allied Democratic Forces, has
remained in the Democratic Republic of Congo for more than 20 years, wreaking
havoc. This militia attacked a village in Beni called Manzahalo, burning down
ten houses and killing ten people. The group has been slowly been dismantled by
the Congolese army as five of the six senior leaders have been killed, and they
detained 40 ADF men last Wednesday.
Boko Haram has caused so much trouble in Nigeria that
thousands have had to flee to Niger. Refugees in camp that missed food from
Sunday’s shipment were so in frenzied that they were not going to miss food for
the second day in the row as the delivery arrived yesterday. They stampeded the
distribution center, killing 20 people.
A disagreement yesterday between herdsmen and a village was
cause for massacre for the herdsmen in the Tsauwa village of northern Nigeria.
30 were killed.
South Sudan’s President Kiir sought peace this weekend,
reverting the country back to 10 states rather than 32, establishing three
administrative areas; however, the rebel leader Riek Machar rejected his
proposal, continuing the stalemate for more than 6 years.
Moving to the Middle East, the Assad’s Syrian war effort has
claimed their advance in the Northwest mostly complete as another 100,000
people fled, since last time I reported on Saturday of 800,000, totaling
900,000.
A car bombing backed by Syria was carried out by a Kurdish
militia, seeking to regain land in Turkey for the Kurdish people.
Another thing that happened over the weekend resulting from
events that I reported last Saturday is the event where the Saudi’s were
fighting the Yemen revolutionaries, since they shot down one of the Saudi fighter
jets. A UN mission helped the two nations negotiate and come to an agreement to
trade prisoners, returning 1400 people to their nations.
A militia in Iraq, who are backed by Iran, shot rockets at a
US military base injuring 11 of the United States’ soldiers.
Afghanistan has come to a conclusion of their presidential
elections, which was four months ago. President Ashraf Ghani won his second six
year term. His background is actually impressive. He got a doctorate degree at
Columbia University, serving as advisors of Afghanistan’s UN secretary-general,
president Hamid Karzi, and at a senior level at the World Bank. He has role
since the fall of the Taliban government was important for the country’s
economic growth.
South Korea is going to have an election in April, and some
leaders within the North Korean refugee and defectors community are seeking to
have greater representation in the South Korean government. The community is
neglected, and a most poignant situation that brings the neglect to light is
the starvation of a family of three, who were denied government support and
left to die in their apartment. The leaders started a political party called
the South-North Unification Party; furthermore, they want to bring to light the
evils of the North Korean government as some policies and ties between the
South and North Korean nations need to be more moderate than friendly according
to the party.
There have been some leaks in the Chinese government’s
treatment of the Uighur Muslim people. Documents show that they have
established re-education camps for people, who have beards too long or too many
children. The persecution against the Uighur population has been going on for
years. In the past 6 years, two million people have been held in internment
camps. The atrocities against these people were named as torture, medical
experiments, and gang rape.
I wanted to mention yesterday depicting somehow that the
integrity of man needs to be held hire because in my review of the news
yesterday; abominable sexual acts of violence were covered extensively
throughout the world. The media is pleading for men to be more considerate of
women. In Mexico over the weekend a 7 year old girl was killed in the rise of
femicide in Mexico City after going missing after school. No one has been
identified as who kidnapped her, and no one known what happen to her other than
she was found dead in a bag. This trend of femicide was brought to attention
only last weekend as the 25 year old Ingrid Escamilla was murdered.
In Thailand, another shooting happened only one day after
the military transferred security back to the city of Bangkok, when ten days
previous a soldier went on a rogue mass shooting in a mall. This shooting was
also in a mall, and it was not tied to the previous incident. The shooter’s
killing of the woman was a result of jealousy. I want to encourage greater
respect for women today. Start in your home.
The link to my official world news report is in the show
notes with all the citations and information.
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