The governments of Mali and Algeria are teaming up to smush a local Al Qaeda spinoff in the western Sahara.  Of course, Algeria has been sponsoring Polisario in the Western Sahara for decades, but *that’s* the terrorists that they like.

The endless ethnic nationalist guerilla war against the central Burmese government goes on, as noted in this ( Read more... )

As some of you will note, Mr. Trivia and Mr. Map Enthusiast here likes to squirrel and roll around in all sorts of odd bits about odd bits of territory. Here’s a few recent adds:

The Frisian Islands, all of which seem to have hung on to their own gumbly dialects - such as Texel, Terschelling, Heligoland (go boom), Sylt and so on.

The Needles, off ( Read more... )