Frankie Martin

The Oro­mo and oth­er long-suf­fer­ing com­mu­ni­ties do not want in­de­pen­dence but to be treat­ed as cit­i­zens of the state.

A heavy-hand­ed so­lu­tion to the Kabyle in Al­ge­ria is doomed to fail­ure and blood­shed, as his­to­ry has shown.

The Kurds must be giv­en full rights and treat­ed as equals if there is to be any hope for fu­ture gen­er­a­tions.

How Putin treats the Cir­cas­sians and the is­sue of Sochi will in­di­cate which di­rec­tion Rus­sia will take.

Emerg­ing from the night­mare of dic­ta­tor­ship, Libya has a new chal­lenge – to ful­ly ac­com­mo­date its own peo­ple.

Wash­ing­ton and Mani­la should work with the Mus­lims of the Philip­pines to en­sure full rights of iden­ti­ty and de­vel­op­ment.

Ex­tend­ing rights to Su­dan’s mi­nor­i­ty Nuba pop­u­la­tion is the only way to solve the coun­try’s cur­rent cri­sis, says au­thor.