Benin , a poor former French colony on the West African coast with many border issues, is surrounded by Togo to the west, Burkina Faso to the northwest, Niger to the north, and Nigeria to the …
New Inspection Program to Target Rail Safety Hot Spots
Ground transportation safety takes time and is always in a perpetual mode. The National Rail Safety Action Plan was rolled out in May 2005 by the Federal Railroad Administration. It stated that the …
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Nebraska Drills for Bioterror Attack
Nebraska?s biocontainment facility in Omaha is certainly state-of-the-art and built for public use. It reflects the seriousness with which Nebraska takes the threat of infectious disease and deadly …
Report encourages Pentagon to focus more on homeland defense
The GOVEXEC.com article provides a review of the ?Restoring American Military Power, a Progressive Quadrennial Defense Review? (QDR) by former defense officials Lawrence Korb and Michele Flournoy …
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NASCIO: States, cities need more cybersecurity help
It should come as no great surprise that the National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) and the Metropolitan Information Exchange have expressed dissatisfaction with the …
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Google Gagged, but There’s Hope
The debate over US technology companies' aid in constructing the ?Great Firewall of China? was reinvigorated by Google?s announcement that it would provide censored search results to residents of …
Nepal braces for more bloodshed in run-up to controversial polls
The prospects for success of Nepal's municipal elections, scheduled for February 8, 2006, are decidedly dim and, as suggested in the AFP article, the first two weeks of February 2006 may be the …
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US ‘eco-terrorists’ indicted on arson, destruction charges
In the past week, the Department of Justice issued a 65-count indictment, charging 11 individuals associated with the Earth Liberation Front (ELF) and the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) with acts of …
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Ivory Coast ‘on the brink of war’
At first glance, it might be easy to see why Cote d'Ivoire's (Ivory Coast) southern protestors are confused, angry, and even threatening United Nations and other peacekeeping forces. Despite a coup …
Working in a danger zone
While this BBC article focuses on the threats to expatriates in Nigeria (WAR Report and WAR Report), the risk of abduction and worse is not exclusively the purview of western Africa. Nay, kidnap and …