Magda Fahsi

Magda Fahsi is a Mint Press Europe correspondent and investigative reporter based in Brussels, Belgium, specializing in human rights. She is also a cross-cultural coach lecturing about intercultural management at the Vatel International Business School, and holds a postgraduate degree in Human Rights and a Ph.D. in International Relations and Diplomacy. She has published articles on a variety of topics including European affairs, the Arab world, human rights and migration and diversity issues. You can visit her website, www.magdafahsi.eu.

France Fights To Maintain Post-Colonial Influence In The Central African Republic

After their intervention in Mali, the French have considered it appropriate to redeploy their troops in Africa.

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BRUSSELS --- What made France suddenly decide to intervene in the Central African Republic, a few months after its intervention in Mali? The official reason given by the President François Holland when he announced his decision to send French soldiers to Africa for the second time in a few months was that they had “no other objective than to save

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Ukraine’s U-turn On EU Agreements Hearkens Back To Cold War Climate

President Yanukovych finds himself in an uncomfortable position, having to reconcile irreconcilable forces.

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Par Magda Fahsi

BRUSSELS --- The Ukrainian president announced on Nov. 21 that he would not sign a political Association Agreement and an economic Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement (DCFTA) with the European Union, leaving the Europeans empty-handed just days before what was hoped to be a historical summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, and facing the near

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Western Minds Have Not Been Decolonized Yet

For the South African apartheid regime, some were terrorists; for the others, some were freedom fighters.

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Par Magda Fahsi

Hélène Passtoors is a Belgian national who was teaching in Mozambique in the 70s and early 80s when she was recruited by the South African African National Congress. She transported weapons, established arms caches and participated in special operations. In 1985, she was arrested, convicted of treason, and sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment. She

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EU Training In Libya Raises Questions

Libya isn’t just any country – government authority is disintegrating, undermining claims that NATO’s 2011 intervention was a successful military action.

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Par Magda Fahsi

What exactly is the European Union doing in Libya? Officially, the EU Border Assistance Mission (EUBAM) is a “civilian mission to support the Libyan authorities in improving and developing the security of the country’s borders,” a EU press communiqué said, adding: “In practice, the work is carried out through advising, training and mentoring the

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NATO’s Push Into Africa A Trojan Horse For US Hegemony

Africa’s independence is at stake as the U.S. and NATO seek meticulous penetration of the continent in order to secure their economic interests while keeping out emerging powers.

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Par Magda Fahsi

BRUSSELS (NATO)--NATO has been increasingly active on the African continent in recent years. It supported the African Union mission in Sudan by airlifting troops to and from the Darfur region, provided strategic sea- and airlift support for Ugandan troops to assist Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government in the civil war, while also playing a

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Greenland Ends Decades-Long Ban On Uranium Mining

The ice-covered, Denmark-ruled island territory may soon be basking in previously unimaginable mineral wealth — and its consequences.

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Par Magda Fahsi

It could be a blessing or a curse — or it may prove to be both. On Oct. 24, Greenland’s parliament voted to revoke the territory’s 25-year-old ban on mining for radioactive materials such as uranium. The very slim majority – 15 votes in favor, 14 against – and the heated debate that preceded showed the extend of the controversy over the

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INTERVIEW: Mexican Priest Threatened For Helping Migrants

“I am a grain of sand in the government’s shoe: I make them uncomfortable … they have to cope with me, because the only other alternative would be to kill me.”

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Par Magda Fahsi

  Father Alejandro Solalinde Guerra is a Mexican Catholic priest. He was deeply touched by the conditions that thousands of Central American migrants face when they ride the train northward to the United States through Mexico, where they are often the victims of criminal gangs and police violence. The National Human Rights Committee of Mexico

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