Aryn Baker, Time: The Only Way to Stop African Migrants Is to Improve Life at Home
A two-day meeting on Malta produces a $2 billion trust fund, but no clear way to stop the flow of migrants from Africa to Europe
Two years ago, the offices of the Association of Overseas Migration Agencies in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa was a hub of vibrant activity. Scores of staffers answered the needs of the country’s 406 registered overseas recruitment companies, which sent nearly 200,000 Ethiopian job seekers abroad every year. But in 2013, the Ethiopian government put a ban on the agencies, pending a proposal to overhaul a system rife with abuse.
Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- November 12, 2015
ISIS Spreads Its Reign of Terror -- Helia Ighani, Newsweek
Severing the Islamic State's Supply Lines: Analysis -- Stratfor
The Secret to Defeating the ISIS ‘Caliphate’ Might Just Be in Islam Itself -- Haroon Moghul, Defense One/Quartz
America Isn’t Losing the War of Ideas to ISIS -- J.M. Berger, Defense One/The Atlantic
Why Are Russian, Central Asian Militants Vanishing From Social Networks? -- Joanna Paraszczuk, RFE
Is Israel isolating itself? -- Uri Savir, Al-Monitor
What the Afghan protests are really about -- Nadir Naim, Al Jazeera
Myanmar’s Elections: What Now? -- Sebastian Strangio, The Diplomat
The Central African Republic Is Still in Crisis. Can UN Peacekeepers Help? -- Aditi Gorur & Lisa Sharland, National Interest
Russia Can't Keep Relying on Oil -- Leonid Bershidsky, Bloomberg
Why France demanded to serve wine at meal with Iran's leader -- Michael Holtz, CSM
The Case for Catalan and Scottish Secession Builds -- Mark Fleming-Williams, Stratfor
Oil Heads Back to the Thirties -- Liam Denning, Bloomberg
How Edward Snowden Changed Everything -- Sagiv Galai and Tekendra Parmar, The Nation
The Sahara Once Had a Mighty River System -- Ross Pomeroy, Real Clear Science
