Comment & analysis

Oh God!
We praise and glorify you
For your grace on South Sudan
Land of great abundance
Uphold us united in peace and harmony

The Fifa World Cup cost South Africa about R120-billion. We will be coughing up at least R100-million annually to service the stadiums, our beautiful cathedrals of self-enslavement.

The sky was very cloudy that Thursday morning. I decided to go to Lagos after postponing the journey for one week. It has become my habit to take an amateurish look at the weather before heading towards the airport.

‘Digital Tongues’ is a series of Skype and email conversations between myself and four other Africans from Egypt, Nigeria, Rwanda and South Africa.

I read an op-ed written by eminent economist and special adviser to the United Nations secretary general, Professor Jeffrey David Sachs on the prospects of the Nigerian economy with mixed feelings (New York Times, 30 May 201

The central challenge facing the Nile Basin states after ratification of the Comprehensive Framework Agreement (CFA) will be the establishment a new Nile Basin regime that will set clear procedures on water sharing, decide on all river projects in the region, and work for the benefit of all.

The recent revelation by the Treasury that the education ministry has been home to a multi-billion fraud has attracted high public interest. This is because corruption remains the permanent and sceptic wound on the grand Free Primary Education programme mooted some nine years ago.

MONDAY, 20 JUNE 2011

Gabonese President Bongo Odimba’s visit to the US from 6-9 June has generated an outcry in Gabonese civil society.

Dr Mandy Garber is a Sierra Leonean psychiatrist living in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She spent the month of April volunteering at the Kissy Psychiatric Hospital, and her experience was sobering.