Governance

I must come out of my procrastinating den in Doha and key in few words about the circumstances surrounding the terrorist attacks in Nairobi’s Westgate Mall.

OAKLAND CA- In a report submitted to the UN Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review (UPR) on September 15, 2013, the Oakland Institute and the Housing and Land Rights Network outlined the human rights and international law violations perpetrated by the government of Ethiopia in the name

La Vía Campesina, GRAIN and ETC welcome a new UNCTAD report which states that farming in rich and poor nations alike should shift from monoculture towards greater varieties of crops, reduced use of fertilizers and other inputs, greater support for small-scale farmers, and more locally focused pro

Anyone who follows the plight of Somalia should be elated by the news of Somali groups reaching an agreement on their differences.

It seems that the African continent's name is so much associated with wars, famine, ethnic cleansing and brutal corrupt dictatorships. That's what we keep hearing in the Western mainstream media and that's what we get from the Western political discourse.

If there is nothing else that readers should take from discussions swirling around such au courant buzzwords like “food security” and “ecosystem service,” it is the understanding that the invisible hand of the market has taken phantasmagoric form and has situated itself nicely alongside less fash

Billows of smoke emanated from the Westgate Shopping Mall in Nairobi, Kenya, on the third day of a standoff between Kenyan, Israeli and United States forces (FBI) against the seizure of the facility by members of the Al-Shabaab Islamic resistance movement based in Somalia.

We, the undersigned, are members of Justice for Blacks, a group consisting of current and former World Bank staff organized to restore the human dignity and rights of people of African heritage in the World Bank.

Since the first preliminary results of Zimbabwe’s 31 July 2013 harmonised elections emerged, most talk has been about whether or not the elections were free, fair and credible, with the main bone of contention being the rigging of the voters roll.

In his recent op-ed in the New York Times, Vladimir Putin raised hackles among the talking-heads across the US when he questioned the wisdom of President Obama’s evocation of the narcissistic idea of ‘American exceptionalism.’ After all, the exceptionalism of the US has never been a subject for r