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In the 1960s, sub-Saharan Africa experienced a major diplomatic offensive by Israel. Kwame Nkrumah's Ghana was the first country to establish diplomatic and economic relations. Others soon followed, so that by the mid-1960s some forty African countries were receiving agricultural and military aid from Israel and benefiting from scholarships for their students. Israel's involvement was facilitated by the CIA's activities in Africa at the time, which were conceived and funded by the United States and other Western powers as their "third force" in Africa. Since then, the situation has evolved due to Africans' growing solidarity with the Palestinians and their rejection of Israel's "apartheid" system of systematic discrimination against non-Israeli populations. Israel lost the support of most SSA countries in the early 1970s because of its collaboration with apartheid South Africa. As Nelson Mandela said, "South Africa will never be free until Palestine is free". At its 12th Ordinary Session in Kampala in 1975, the OAU for the first time identified Israel's founding ideology, Zionism, as a form of racism. Nevertheless, several African countries continued to maintain low-level contacts through thirteen foreign embassies, for example in Ethiopia, Tanzania, Uganda and Zaire, while educational and commercial exchanges continued, albeit on a much reduced scale and away from the public eye. But the scourge of Islamist terrorism necessitated a revival of relations. Military and security cooperation, including cyber security, is particularly intensive with Ethiopia, Zaire, Uganda, Ghana, Togo and South Africa, for example. It has also often served to prop up despotic African regimes. Today, sub-Saharan Africa is a lucrative market for the Israeli defence industry.

"Wehrhafte Demokratie" ist in Deutschland ein bekanntes Konzept. Wie sieht das auf europäischer Ebene aus? Welche Möglichkeiten hat die EU, sich gegen illiberale und antidemokratische Tendenzen ihrer Mitgliedsländer zu wehren? Und wie erfolgreich ist sie dabei? (APuZ)

Current political and religious tensions in France threaten national cohesion. The main point is the break of reciprocity link between citizens and public institutions they finance. The systemic analysis at the heart of this work reveals close relations that these institutions maintain among themselves through recent judicial affairs on religious signs in public places. These privileged links are reflected in a common discourse on secularism that substitutes public debate and ignores the institutional guarantees of peace.

Nach jahrzehntelanger Militärherrschaft hat Myanmar seit Anfang 2016 wieder eine gewählte Regierung. Der Friedensprozess mit den bewaffneten ethnischen Minderheiten geht aber weiterhin nur schleppend voran, und Ende 2016 eskalierte die Gewalt gegen die muslimische Minderheit der Rohingya erneut.

2003 öffneten die USA im Irak eine Büchse der Pandora. Machtvakua führten zum Aufstieg des IS und zum Ausbruch des Konfessionshaders zwischen Schiiten und Sunniten. Das Ergebnis: eine Demokratiefassade und die Überreste eines Staates. (APuZ)