Giant Dubai port operator keeps adding pieces to empire.
DORALEH, Djibouti (AP) - The hulking, modern cargo port unveiled here over the weekend with song and dance honoring Djibouti's Somali and Afar heritage looks out of place in such a hardscrabble landscape. Camels and goats graze on surrounding scrubland. A sign at the port's entrance warns...

Chicago Tribune Correspondent Paul Salopek Wins George Polk Award for International Reporting.
CHICAGO, Feb. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- The Chicago Tribune's Paul Salopek is the winner of the 2008 George Polk Award for International Reporting for a series of reports revealing the largely unknown and controversial efforts by the U.S. to bring the war on terror to the Horn of Africa. ...

Defense Supply Center Philadelphia Extends SupplyCore's CENTCOM Region Contract.
ROCKFORD, Ill., Jan. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- The Defense Supply Center Philadelphia (DSCP) has awarded SupplyCore, a leading supply chain management and logistics services provider, a one-year extension to its CENTCOM contract. Under this Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Prime Vendor contract, SupplyCore provides MRO supplies and related services to the...

Portraits from the horn of Africa Camp Lemonier, Djibouti, 4/18/08.
While Marines from around the globe continue their fight in the streets of Iraq and harsh terrain of Afghanistan, a different kind of mission carries on in the Horn of Africa. Considered by some experts to be the next front in the Global War on Terrorism, the region is...

National Day of Somalia.
SOMALIA celebrates its National Day today. Located in Eastern Africa, its neighbors are Djibouti, Ethiopia, and Kenya. The total area of the country is 246,200 square miles and its estimated population is seven million. Mogadishu is its capital. The economy of Somalia is based primarily on livestock...

Snapshots 2008.
WARNING! You are About to Cross the World's Longest and Shortest Borders. [DISTANCE IN MILES] [LONGEST] CHINA 13,642 USSIA 12.41 BRAZIL 9,128 INDIA 8,763 USA 7,477 SHORTEST SAN MARINO 24 TUVALU 14 MONACO 3 VATICAN CITY 2 Note: Table made from line graph....

Deep background.
There is considerable debate about what the Bush Doctrine actually means, but it is generally accepted that the United States reserves the right to act unilaterally and pre-emptively against security threats. By extension, the U.S. military overseas is also covered by the same principle of "force protection," meaning that...

YOBI.tv Announces 'Weekly Show' as Growth Continues.
DETROIT, Oct. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- http://www.yobi.tv/ , the recently launched free Internet Reality Contest site with contests now running for Comedy, Film Making, Singing and Photography, has just announced a group of new on-line hosts and a weekly show. "With the massive popularity of social networks, reality...

Analyze the map.
Study the map. Then mark the circle next to the correct answer. 1. Which country does not border the Gulf of Aden? (A) Yemen (B) Ethiopia (C) Somalia 2. The Suez Canal flows through which country? (A)...

A Fateful MENA Choice Between Crops & Water.
Global food shortages have placed the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) in a quandary, as they are forced to choose between growing more crops to feed an expanding population or preserving their already scant supply of water. Oil-rich GCC states are searching for farm-land in fertile but politically...