The poor security situation in western Darfur is compounded by issues that straddle the Sudan Chad border.

The Commonwealth's 53 member States straddle nearly every continent in seeking to promote peace, strong democracies, good governance, gender equality and sustainable development.

We're continuously trying to straddle different worlds, different cultures and trying to meet the challenges of a different expectation from ourselves and from others.

Among them, two governance issues straddle the two draft resolutions, to which the European Union attaches particular importance combating illegal, unregulated and unreported (IUU) fishing, and addressing the conservation of vulnerable marine ecosystems.

But as we straddle the top of this energy mountain, at this stage, we move from a time where our economic success, our sense of individual prowess and well being is directly linked to how much of this we consume, to a time when actually our degree of oil dependency is our degree of vulnerability.

Hillary Clinton, trying to straddle the divide between the two wings of the Democratic Party, is increasingly leaning to the left as Sanders draws enormous crowds, something she has yet to accomplish. Moreover, her campaign is struggling to escape the quagmire produced by revelations that she conducted official business on a private email server during her tenure as Obama s Secretary of State.