Governance

In his first major speech on the financial crisis, Pope Francis called on people to restrain their obsession with materialist consumption and wealth accumulation. He exhorted world leaders to serve the poor and not allow themselves to be deluded by blind market forces.

It is a dark and gloomy month on the “Dark Continent”!

Today, the latest version of Band Aid’s famous charity song ‘Do they know it’s Christmas?’ is being released as a CD.

A. INTRODUCTION

The election of President Obama in 2008 was a moment of big hope for minorities in the US and for blacks in particular.

The 10th of December has been celebrated around the world since 1950 when the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed that day as the Human Rights Day, to bring to the attention of the peoples of the world the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as the common standard of achievement for all

At first glance, the outcome of the recent Namibian general elections represents a great victory for the ruling South-West African People’s Organisation (Swapo).

It takes us four hours to cruise on the peaceful waves of Lake Kivu, an area that has known decades of unrest and armed crisis. The whistling winds of the lake seem to echo the aspirations of a whole region, to see peace and stability back.

CHALLENGES

Just over a week after thousands of people took to the streets in protest and outrage following the Ferguson grand jury's decision not to indict a white police officer for fatally shooting an unarmed black teenager, we are faced with the reality that a New York grand jury - tasked with determinin