Governance

It will be 34 years, come September, since the death of Dr. Agostinho Neto, Angola’s first president. Dr. Neto was the man who changed the face of Angola’s armed struggle against Portuguese occupation after joining the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA).

Kenyans were pleasantly surprised that their most celebrated kinsman the President of the United States Barack Obama finally broke the silence on his take on the coming elections in Kenya.

I am one of those who out of principle condemn all military interventions by Western powers in the countries of the South, these interventions being by nature subject to the requirements of the deployment of control of the planet by the capital of the monopolies that dominate the system.

As an international organization, the World Bank enjoys sovereign immunity. This means staff members with claims against the Bank cannot take their case to court.

In a recent article published in this forum Phyllis Muhammad wrote about “the twin evils that have bedeviled the World Bank’s relationship with Africa as a continent and Africans as human beings.” Her article opened a space for a new perspective and discourse, identifying the twin evils as struct

Last week saw the most significant and the most dangerous turn in Tunisia since its revolt in 2011.

The experience of party primaries in the Rift Valley region of Kenya, the epicenter of the 2007/08 orgy of election violence, reflects a pure experiment at ethnic brokerage and craftsmanship, underpinned by the resolve to save the Jubilee coalition of Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta and Will

French defense ministry officials have said that they are planning to make a withdrawal from Mali by April.

More than three decades ago, The Gambia was widely regarded as a wellspring of democracy and respect for both political and civil liberties. But time has moved The Gambia onto a road of religio-pollitical difficulty.

Once again, the much told fact has been reiterated: workers get a thinner slice of pie. The International Labour Organisation’s (ILO) ‘Global Wage Report 2012/13: Wages and Equitable Growth’ records the fact. The bigger slice is always for capital.