Comment & analysis

The 6th edition of the World Water Forum took place in Marseille last week and brought together stakeholders in an attempt to mobilise creativity, innovation and know-how for tackling global issues surrounding water.

There are days when people make jokes and you laugh so hard; and then you are reminded that it is not a joke. Politics in Zimbabwe may not be necessarily of interest to most unless there is bashing of homosexuals, because of its outspokenness by President Mugabe.

In recent times it has become a full-time job for some dubious and dishonest Nigerians to deny the Biafra Genocide, also known as Nigeria Genocide in Biafra. Some go to the ridiculous extent of saying that it never happened. Such ones are wishful thinkers.

This report is a summary of a conversation with Honourable Albert Kan Dapaah, Chair, Public Accounts Committee, Parliament of Ghana on Thursday, 3 November 2011.

The high level of attention given to Zimbabwe’s crafting of a new constitution as a key step towards fresh elections necessarily calls for a word of caution about the unjustified great expectations that a new constitution will solve Zimbabwe’s governance and electoral challenges.

With all the questions and buzz around me about Kony 2012, I can't help but add my say. And am going to offend some people, I know, but can't help it.

How legitimate are comparisons of Israel’s control over the Palestinians and apartheid South Africa’s treatment of blacks? As Israeli Apartheid Week sweeps through university campuses across the world, renewed attention is drawn to the parallels in the policies of both countries.

As I sat and deliberated on the theme for this year’s Intenational Day for Women, ‘Rural Women: Ending Poverty and Hunger’, the hypocrisy of white supremacy was impossible to ignore.

South Africa has the largest gap in the world between the rich and the poor. To eliminate extreme wealth for the white minority and extreme poverty for the poor African majority 12 things must be done. Land is a source of employment and wealth creation. Land is a primary means of production.

Recently, on 9 February, 16 prominent human rights activists were arrested in Dar es Salaam on the grounds of unlawful assembly.