Weekly News Brief 9/21
On Tuesday night, an armed group attacked the US embassy in Libya, leading to the deaths of US Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens and three other US personnel. The attack was spurred by protests over an amateur film, “The Innocence of Muslims,” which mocks and insults the Prophet Muhammad.
Almost two weeks after the passage of a UN backed cease-fire agreement meant to bring a temporary reprieve from violence to the embattled Syrian nation there appears to be little sign of substantive change on the ground.
Syria
A little foggy on your knowledge of Joseph Kony and the Lord’s Resistance Army? Want to do your own fact-checking on the Kony 2012 video? We put together a brief overview of the history of Kony and the LRA as well as a summary of Invisible Children and Enough’s policy asks in Kony 2012.
Important Historical Actors
Syria
Sudan and South Sudan
The Sudanese defense minister, General Abdul Rahim Mohamed Hussien, has declared that his country is planning to start producing heavy weapons after it already ended dependence on purchases of small arms from outside.
By Media Coordinator Alix Neenan
I’m a very opinionated person. So perhaps this was why my African studies teacher assigned me to be the Sudanese government in a Darfur simulation. Or maybe she just hates me and enjoys seeing eighteen other students yell at me asking why I was allowing the Janjaweed to murder the citizens of Darfur.
Sudan, South Sudan
South Sudan has launched official passports and identity cards for the first time since the country’s independence in July.
Syria