The M23 positions are in two hills and some villages in the plains near the Rwandan border, and suggestions of Rwandan support for their cause may explain how they continue to make advances against the massed ranks of the Congolese army.
Trump has long pledged to force Mexico to pay for the proposed 2,000-mile 2,000-mile 3,220kmall, a suggestion the Mexican president responded to coldly.
Valls said that Europe had to improve its border controls, a suggestion that called into question the Schengen zone arrangement, which allows travel with no passport among 26 European nations, not all of them members of the European Union.
This is entirely understandable considering the bigotry that was the backbone of Trump's campaign which included suggesting that undocumented Mexican immigrants were rapists and that the U.S. should build a wall on the Mexican border and the suggestion that the U.S. should implement a total shutdown of Muslim immigration into the country.
Mixed messages are therefore sometimes apparent from policy implementation partners during the preparation of research outputs, with professions of laudable albeit sometime elusive impartiality, suggestions bordering on instructions, and a sense of seeking to reject advice before it has been fully delivered.
The most disturbing part of the Administration's response to the crisis at the border has been a suggestion by the President that, in order to fast-track deportations of young people from Central America, he might seek changes to a 2008 law meant to protect the rights and the welfare of trafficked children.
But Philip Downer, managing director of Borders, dismisses this suggestion.
For a tropical paradise that has never taxed income, property, corporate earnings, retail sales or capital gains, such a suggestion borders on heresy.
But Mr. Medina played down any suggestion of a border clash.
But despite the suggestions of cross-border co-operation, a coherent, region-wide strategy has not emerged.
