Rory O'Keeffe, KorakiOct 7, 201915 minTurkey and Northern Syria part two: a ‘safe zone’ which will not long be eitherWe had intended to publish this yesterday, 7 October 2019, but as news broke of the Trump administration’s decision to ‘stand aside’ and...
Rory O'KeeffeJul 31, 201934 minIdlib, Istanbul, Turkey and the EU: Review, 30 July 20192019 Statistics so far 1. New arrivals by sea 2. Transfers from the islands to mainland 3. Other removals from the islands 4. Detention...
Rory O'KeeffeJul 16, 201915 minThe St Valentine’s Day Charade: Khalifa Haftar, the cause of and main actor in, Libya’s second civilIn April this year, Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar declared that he would ‘push the (Libyan government) out of Tripoli’. Since then, he...
Rory O'KeeffeJun 27, 201920 minThe United Nations Does Not Exist: notes on the UN and humanitarianism for aid workers and other intThe United Nations does not exist. More to the point (though ‘more to the point’ may seem counterintuitive here), the UN Security Council...