Governance

Burkina Faso’s president, Thomas Sankara, defined his aims shortly before he was assassinated in 1987: ‘Our revolution will be of value only if, looking back… and ahead, we are able to say that the Burkinabe people are a little happier because of it.

Last Friday, the Economist magazine published a report about the implosion of Libya. My attention was caught by the pictures that illustrated the piece – particularly one of some graffitti on the wall of a sea front cafe in the capital Tripoli.

As a result of years of diplomacy and pressure by human rights organisations, the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court (ICC) finally came alive on 1 July 2002.

Vo Nguyen Giap, the celebrated Vietnamese patriot who centralized the importance of independence and national liberation in the twentieth century has now joined his ancestors. He passed away on 4 October, 2013 in Hanoi at the age of 102.

After one year of consultations, planning sessions, and international conferences, representatives of the International Community (Development Partners) and High level delegation led by President Hassan Sh.

As we walked out of Beachcomba Hotel the other day, reception warned us, ‘be careful of muggers as you walk toward White Sands Hotel at this hour.’ We looked at our clocks. It was only 8pm and the distance between the two hotels was hardly a five-minute walk.

During my brief tenure in the Kenyan government I clashed with senior colleagues who insisted that ‘eating’ from security contracts in particular was okay because the money was essential to pay for democracy that we all know is messy and expensive.

The African Union’s threatened “mass treaty-cide” (a phrase I am compelled to coin to describe the bizarre threatened walkout on the Rome Statute) fizzled out.

Capitalism in the US is exposing itself with renewed force as it invigorates self-contradictions and faces fracases with appearance of farce, and it fails to resolve these. One of the matured capitalist economies, and the Lord of the World, is presenting the show.

In August, media reports indicated that over 50 girls from Nginyang girls’ boarding school in western Kenya had camped at school, reluctant to go back to their homes for fear of being subjected to Female Genital Mutilation (FGM).