Foreign Digest: Italy, Greece and Turkey, Zimbabwe and Sudan

Italy, Greece and Turkey

            Italy and Greece signed an agreement last week to demarcate their maritime economic exclusion zones.  The agreement is in contrast with the behavior of the Islamist Government of Turkey, which signed an energy agreement earlier this year with Libya without consultation with Greece, Cyprus or Egypt, who were all angered by the Turkish unilateralism in the shared eastern Mediterranean Sea that ignored their interests. 

            Meanwhile, the increasingly authoritarian Turkish regime continues—nearly four years after the failed military coup in 2016—to use the attempt as a pretext to make arrests in order to eliminate any dissent.

           

Zimbabwe

            Two opposition leaders in Zimbabwe were re-arrested by the far-left authoritarian Zimbabwean regime after having been freed.  The same party has ruled since independence from the United Kingdom in 1980 without fully free and fair elections.

Sudan

           The Sudanese provisional government turned over a militia leader wanted for war crimes to the International Criminal Court.  The chief prosecutor urges Sudan to hand over the former Islamist Sudanese dictator and terrorist sponsor for war crimes, namely genocide against various peoples, whom the military overthrew last year.  The military-civilian provisional government is transitioning to elections for a fully representative government within three years.