Comment & analysis

The triumphalism with which the death of Muammar Gaddafi has been greeted by his opponents does not inspire confidence that the serious task of remoulding Libyan society to meet the challenges of the future, will be successfully met.

Apart from its postcard scenery, the city of Cape Town promotes itself as being the second-richest city and the second-largest centre of economic activity in South Africa.

There are over 750 million Muslim women in the world and the question that often crops up is who speaks for them? Who leads them?

Tunisia's first free elections will be held this Sunday 23 October. With more than 100 parties, there are feelings of great uncertainty as well as excitement.

October 15th marked the official “Occupy Everywhere” day in in 952 cities located in 82 countries. The message even reached my sleepy university town of Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape of South Africa.

The ICC Kenya trials that are riveting the country have taken an ironic turn.

The Executive Board and Staff of the African Women's Development Fund (AWDF) extend their heartfelt congratulations to Her Excellency Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of the Republic of Liberia; Leymah Gbowee, Executive Director of WIPSEN/Member of the African Women Leaders Network for Reproducti

It does not look like that great daughter of the motherland, Prof Wangari Muta Maathai, is now resting somewhere in heaven as recently suggested by the celebrated public intellectual Gado in one of his Daily Nation cartoons.

An interesting mêlée happened in Zimbabwe eight months ago.

World Mental Health Day on 10 October is designed to raise public awareness about mental health issues, and was first celebrated in 1992 at the initiative of the World Federation for Mental Health, a global mental health organisation.