Comment & analysis

Hitherto, I have been reluctant to post a commentary regarding the World Bank’s suggested birr devaluation measure which is still being debated as we speak.

Since 2009, Rwandan rulers have pressured for the ‘premature’ and ‘ungrounded’ application of the cessation clause on the refugee status of Rwandan refugees.

Congratulations to President Obama for hosting the US-Africa Leaders Summit. The summit is historic, measured not only by the number of African leaders it assembles but also by the depth and breadth of the issues it brings to the table.

THE PERILS OF SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER

It is perhaps fitting that President Obama has called for a meeting with African leaders in Washington DC on the eve of a touchy presidential election in Nigeria in 2015. It is an election that many have said could make or mar Nigeria.

In the past few weeks, the South African media has been dominated by the unfolding catastrophe in Gaza and South Africans have had to rely largely on foreign coverage of this issue to understand it.

[Johan Galtung, a professor of peace studies, dr hc mult, is rector of the TRANSCEND Peace University-TPU. He is author of over 150 books on peace and related issues, including ‘50 Years-100 Peace and Conflict Perspectives,’ published by the TRANSCEND University Press-TUP.

On 28 July 2014, Defence for Children International Palestine reported that the death toll for the children in Gaza was 200 and rising.

‘No one should be punished for the sin of the father.’
- Verodiane Nyirasinamenye, Amahoro Orphanage, Musanze, Rwanda

The crisis in South Sudan was avoidable and a self-inflicted disaster created by the political and military leadership of that country. There is no excuse or justification for the war that started on 13 December 2013.