Governance

After two decades in power Kagame recently had the constitution changed so (only) he can keep running for office. Alongside Kagame’s move to stay as president for life, the regime has employed increasingly brazen tactics to deter dissent.

The hotel door was the dividing line: inside, a first world fantasy of starched uniforms, low voices, and crisp cool air; outside, color and heat, vendors selling knickers, groundnuts and sunglasses along cracked sidewalks.

INTRODUCTION

The 44-page report, ‘An Economy for the 1%’, published by Oxfam GB for Oxfam International (ISBN 978-1-78077-993-5, January 2016, Oxford, UK) says:

After a series of meetings in Dakar, I travelled back to London via Madrid on a red-eye Iberia Airlines flight.

It is indeed extraordinary that Muhammadu Buhari, head of regime of Nigeria, would pose the question ‘What do the Igbo want?’, albeit rhetorically, during a tortured effort to answer a question on Biafra from a panel of ‘selected’ journalists in Abuja on 30 December 2015.

This year's national commemoration of the 87th birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. comes during a period of renewal in the anti-racist movement.

Late last year, the South African government officially announced that Cabinet had approved plans to proceed with its controversial nuclear procurement programme.

INTRODUCTION

A French reporter (Ursula Gauthier) has recently been expelled from China for her criticism of the policies pursued by China in Xin Jiang, a vast region of deserts and mountains in the north of the country occupied by several ethnic minorities.