Comment & analysis

‘Please help me,’ said Fatima. ‘Just help me.’

Fatima is seven years old. While playing outside in Damascus, the splinter of a grenade hit her in the spinal cord. It paralyzed her from the waist down.

On March 26, war crimes suspect Bosco Ntaganda appeared for preliminary proceedings before the International Criminal Court (ICC) as the judges set the date for the case ‘The Prosecutor v. Bosco Ntaganda’ to begin on September 23, 2013.

The Pan-Afrikan Community Movement (PACM) is a newly formed grassroots Pan-Africanist community-based movement of youths, students, women and employed and unemployed workers in Sierra Leone.

The recent high profile visit of British Foreign Secretary William Hague and actress Angelina Jolie to Gisozi genocide memorial briefly drew the attention of the international media back to Rwanda and to the 19th anniversary of the start of the Rwandan genocide on 7 April.

The President of the World Forum for Alternatives (WFA), Egyptian economist Samir Amin, today paid tribute to the late president of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, whose death he called a ‘great tragedy.’

Dear CJ Mutunga,

Things Fall Apart and No Longer at Ease are perhaps the best known novels not only to emerge from Africa but the entire world. The author of these classic works which embodied a clear anti-colonial theme, Chinua Achebe, passed away on March 21 in Boston.

In paying tribute to Prof. Chinua Achebe, this great scholar, this outstanding writer, this inspiring philosopher and this true Son of Africa; let me briefly say the following:

Over the years, the Black athlete has been the subject of both popular and scholarly examination. Nothing has changed the face (literally) of professional sports in America like the Black athlete.

With 8 million people killed, thousands of women raped, strategic minerals looted, land occupied by an implanted population from Rwanda and hundreds of people forced out of their land into internally displaced people’s camps or fleeing to neighbouring countries in the last 15 years - as a result