What are the current trends when it comes to assisting and protecting refugees and asylum-seekers in Europe and in the Middle East? How do political decisions regarding refugees taken in one region affect assistance and protection in other regions?

Analysis: New violence against protesters has created a difficult situation for both the Forces of Freedom and Change and the ruling military council, so where does the future lie?

On July 5, the Sudanese people woke up to the announcement of a power sharing agreement between the Transitional Military Council (TMC) and the Freedom and Change Forces (FCF). The power sharing agreement provides cause for optimism, but also wariness according to Abdelmageed M. Yahya, as political parties and movements are preparing to compete for power.

Astri Suhrke has been writing all her life. About American politics, the UN, Afghanistan, Rwanda, Timor Leste - and about a ride on bus #20 in Bergen. Treading softly has never been one of her concerns. Wherever there has been cause for critique, she has raised it. -I have written completely without restraint, she laughs. Trying to describe Astri Suhrke, fearless is the first word that comes to mind.