Comment & analysis

According to UNAIDS, Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) remains the region most heavily affected by the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

It's been two months since Burundian authorities detained prominent human rights defender (HRD) Pierre-Claver Mbonimpa.

Of all the partners in international crime in existence right now, the United States and Israel are the worst. Along with their less powerful cohorts like Saudi Arabia they have instigated occupations and carnage on a mass scale.

Eleven years ago, African states made formidable progress by jointly adopting the Protocol to the African Charter on the Rights of Women in Africa, also known as the Maputo Protocol - regarded as one of the most progressive women’s and human rights instruments in the world.

Winston Churchill in volume 1, chapter 8 of his book “The Gathering Storm” (1948), quoted the response of former Soviet strongman Joseph Stalin (1879-1953), to the French Foreign Minister who requested, on 13 May 1935, that the Soviet Union should encourage Catholicism so as to propitiate the pop

Al-Shabaab’s attack on the presidential palace in Mogadishu on 8 July 2014 is the latest of a string of violent assaults that have afflicted Somalia and neighbouring countries in recent weeks.

How long and deep can the current character of foreign direct investment (FDI) penetrate the social legacy of colonialism and neo-colonialism in Africa?

Last week, the regime in Ethiopia announced its abduction of Andaragatchew Tsgie, General Secretary of the Ethiopian opposition group known as Ginbot 7 Movement for Justice, Freedom and Democracy, with smug delight.

[This Mangaliso Robert Sobukwe memorial lecture was delivered at the Methodist Black Consultation Springs Gauteng, South Africa, 12 July 2014.">

Climate change is a topic that is of major concern to Africa, primarily because climate scientists argue, with evidence, that Africa is the continent most vulnerable to climate change while being the least able to adapt to its impacts [1].