Comment & analysis

The terrorist attacks of 7 and 9 January against Charlie Hebdo and a Jewish supermarket in Paris have caused deep emotions and hurt feelings. Those events were experienced almost live by many Africans via the media. Across Africa, fundamentalism allows and justifies unbearable violence.

The phrase ‘Africa rising’ is often used to refer to the positive trend of economic growth across the continent. Majority of the world’s fastest growing economies are in Africa. Six of the world’s ten fastest growing economies in the past decade were African nations.

EDITOR’S NOTE: Charles Okah is the alleged mastermind of the Nigerian Independence Day 2010 bombings. At least 12 people were killed and 36 others injured in the attacks. Charles, with his co-accused Obi Nwabueze, is charged with treason and terrorism.

After months of turning the blind eye to the criminality in the northeast, Nigeria’s embattled president, Goodluck Jonathan, confessed last week that his government all along took Boko Haram for granted!

Food Sovereignty Ghana is shocked by the pronouncements of Prof.

Boko Haram is the excuse for US/UK military intervention in Nigeria.

I want to correct some misconceptions about Boko Haram and the kidnapped girls that are still missing in Chibok, Borno State, Northern Nigeria.

On February 12, 2015, South African President Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma delivered his sixth State of the Nation Address (SONA 2015).

Amongst the audience in Parliament’s public gallery for President Jacob Zuma’s State of the Nation Address (SONA) last week was a Palestinian freedom icon who carried with her the hopes of all Palestinians that the ANC government would begin making moves towards cutting ties with Israel.

Twenty-nine years ago, on February 7, 1986, Haiti ousted the bloody, US-supported Duvalier dictatorship and swore never to allow dictatorship in Haiti ever again.