As part of its special series on Veterans Al Jazeera visited Sarajevo more than ten years on from one of the longest sieges in modern history.
The Bosnian capital is now at peace but the destructive efforts of war endure both physically and psychologically.
As part of its special series on Veterans Al Jazeera visisted Sarajevo more than ten years on from one of the longest sieges in modern history.
The Bosnian capital is now at peace but the destructive efforts of war endure both physically and psychologically.
Straddling the Arab North and African South, Sudan’s Abyei region is traditionally seen as a cultural crossroads.
Arabs and Africans have mixed freely there for centuries.
But as the North and South wrestle for control of the oil-rich region, the issue of ethnic identity is dividing its people.
The twelfth Malaysian election pits Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi’s long-ruling Barisan Nasional coalition against three main opposition parties, the left-leaning Democratic Action Party (DAP), the Islamist party Parti Islam se-Malaysia (PAS) and former deputy premier Anwar Ibrahim’s Party Keadilan (PKR). Malaysia’s Prime Minister, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, joins the programme.We asked him about rising prices, growing ethnic tensions and whether or not he can maintain a crucial two-thirds parliamentary majority.
We discuss the up coming elections in Malaysia. Although the party of current prime minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi is expected to win the key question may be whether or not the balloting will be free and fair and if the country’s more than 10 million registered voters will turn out. Widespread reports of ‘phantom voter lists’ coupled with a virtual media blackout of opposition candidates has raised speculation that disaffected Malaysians may opt out all together.