Day of Departure?

Posted on | februari 4, 2011 | No Comments

Is this Friday going to be decisive? That is what the protesters at Midan al-Tahrir are certaintly hoping for. They expect that again thousands will flood the square after the morning prayers and called it the Day of Departure. But the situation is tense and unclear, with barbed wire and makeshift checkpoints around Tahrir to keep attackers out, and an army which the past days occasionaly separated anti- and pro-protesters, but whose overall posture is still unclear.
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Category: flora & fauna, human rights, Northern Africa, war & conflicts
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It’s time to focus on poor people – not poor countries

Posted on | februari 4, 2011 | No Comments

A better title I can not come up with. I took it directly from one of the two articles I read last weeks which took my attention. Both were published on the PovertyMatters blog – part of the website of the English newspaper Guardian. A very interesting blog I would recommend to anyone with a passion for social change. I especially like the critical view of the blog. With only good intentions you won’t achieve a lot.
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Category: Latin America, opinion, poverty
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The Netherlands important supplier of Egypt’s arms

Posted on | februari 3, 2011 | 1 Comment

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Dutch arms export to Egypt

The authoritarian regime of Mubarak was armed mainly by the US. But also arms sales from the Netherlands are bigger than one would expect. The sale of armoured personnel carriers (a small kind of tanks) during the mid nineties is still one of the biggest sales in the history of Dutch arms.

In 1994 the Netherlands sold 599 YPR-765 and 12 M-577 tracked armoured vehicles. In 2005 a next sale of 431 YPR’s followed. The Dutch government defended this last sale by stating “that since 1994, as far as is known, Egypt used neither military equipment nor the armed forces against civilians.”
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Category: Dutch foreign policy, flora & fauna, Northern Africa, war & conflicts, whistleblower
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Andes Economic Newsletter

Posted on | februari 2, 2011 | No Comments

The fifth edition of the Andes Economic Newsletter from the Royal Dutch Embassies of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela is released. Topics of conversation: the most important economical developments, tenders, promising sectors and an overview of stocks and activities. The newsletter is in Dutch and can be downloaded HERE.

Category: briefing, Latin America, Royal Dutch Embassy
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Israeli settler kills Palestinian farmer

Posted on | februari 2, 2011 | No Comments

Israeli settler kills Palestinian farmer in Iraq Burin 28/1/11

Armed Illegal Israeli settlers in the West Bank taking over Palestinian land, both private and public, usually walk down from their settlements, located on hilltops, to harass farmers in the surrounding area to prevent them from tending their land, their only source of living. The settlers plan is to drive farmers out and expand the settlements.
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Category: human rights, Middle East, war & conflicts
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Not a march and not a million, but literally millions ask Mubarak to go away

Posted on | februari 2, 2011 | No Comments

Most important development of the last days: the army announced that it will not open fire on Egyptian civilians. Spokesman Ismail Etman of the army made a statement on Monday that the army recognizes the ‘right to freedom of expression’ and ‘the legitimate demands of the people’ and that the army will not use force against ‘the great people of this great Egyptian nation’. Etman’s statement came after numerous unofficial declarations by Egyptian officers in the past days that they only had only orders tot maintain the order and not to interfere with the protests or open fire.
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Category: Northern Africa
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