Victor Angelo

We are witnessing the emergence of a new campaign against Iran that includes “information” about that country’s growing presence in West ...

Not too long ago, during my time in the Sahel Region, I met regularly with Sudanese community villagers, men and women, as well as with o...

Is there a link between the latest developments in Libya, where the forces supported by the Russians have decided to launch a major offen...

The European Union (still 28 States at the time of the meeting..) and the Arab League (22 States) first-ever summit has just taken place i...

The Sinai plane crash raises a couple of chief questions. It has to be seriously and independently investigated. It would be unacceptable ...

Every time I see images, or read the proceedings of today´s Egyptian courts, a single word comes to mind: deplorable. When the shock is...

End of August, end of summer holidays. This summer has been however a very busy one. And as we get into full gear in September, we will se...

There is now an “archipelago of collapse” that goes from Mali to Iraq, through Libya, Egypt and Syria. It´s like an oil slick that tends t...

The Football World Cup started today in São Paulo. The TV screens will be full of soccer news during the next few weeks. At a time when th...

Egypt´s current crisis raises many questions. Three years ago, the democratic transition for a post-Mubarak era had generated great enthus...

Let me be clear. Kangaroo courts and irrational judgments like the ones now taking place in Egypt are simply unacceptable. The way hundred...

I have talked to someone who knows Egypt well. And I came to the conclusion that any black-and-white approach to the current situation in ...

The Middle East remains a region deeply unstable. And the UN Secucity Council, which has the principle responsibility for international pe...

Very quietly but very clearly, the big international business bosses and their friends in the academic and media worlds here in the EU hav...

During his time in office, Morsi developed a close relationship with Prime Minister Erdogan of Turkey. This political alliance has certain...

Egypt is probably the most important country in the Arab world. Because of its size, the Suez Canal, its mixture of Muslim and Christian p...

Following the dramatic situation that has developed in Egypt, the EU and the US are struggling to issue “politically correct” statements. ...

I wrote yesterday’s post hours before the new dramatic developments in Egypt. At the end of my writing, I said “everything else is too tra...

Egypt’s domestic situation is very volatile. People have, however, been able to keep the instability within peaceful parameters. In a coun...

The Middle East, defined in broad terms to include both Egypt and Iran, and the countries in between, remains the most unstable region of ...