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It hasn't made much noise worldwide, but Iran's rapidly deteriorating relationships with several African countries is huge news across the continent. On February 16, the Nigerian Federal High Court in Lagos began the prosecution of an alleged member of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), Azim Aghajani, and a Nigerian associate, Usman Abbas Jega. They are accused of arms smuggling. This video link is in Arabic, but is very self-explanatory. It is of the opening day of the court proceedings.The story is a classic, just one of many on the Dark Continent nowadays: In late October 2010, Nigerian intelligence officials...

Bahrain's crown prince said in remarks published on Thursday that he opposed Palestinian attacks against Israeli civilians and urged fellow Arabs to united behind this "principled position". "Bahrain opposes the targeting of Israeli civilians by Palestinian operations," the London-based al-Hayat daily quoted Crown Prince Sheikh Salman bin Hamad al-Khalifa as saying. "They should instead be directed against Israeli occupation forces...including armed settlers." Sheikh Salman said rejecting attacks against civilians was a "principled position that all Arab countries ought to agree upon because it served Arab and Muslim causes in regional and international arenas". "Continued attacks against Israeli civilians could push...