Governance

The crisis in South Sudan was avoidable and a self-inflicted disaster created by the political and military leadership of that country. There is no excuse or justification for the war that started on 13 December 2013.

It's been two months since Burundian authorities detained prominent human rights defender (HRD) Pierre-Claver Mbonimpa.

A large-scale tourism project planned for the Haitian island of Île-à-Vache targets ‘the well-heeled tourist from traditional markets…creating a place of exquisite peace and well-being,’ as described in the government of Haiti’s

‘We must say these things before we die!’ – Mangaliso Robert Sobukwe, revolutionary founding president of the Pan African Congress, apartheid prisoner and noted pan-Africanist

INTRODUCTION

Winston Churchill in volume 1, chapter 8 of his book “The Gathering Storm” (1948), quoted the response of former Soviet strongman Joseph Stalin (1879-1953), to the French Foreign Minister who requested, on 13 May 1935, that the Soviet Union should encourage Catholicism so as to propitiate the pop

Al-Shabaab’s attack on the presidential palace in Mogadishu on 8 July 2014 is the latest of a string of violent assaults that have afflicted Somalia and neighbouring countries in recent weeks.

Horace Campbell is a superb analyst but occasionally – like all of us – he gets things wrong: ‘the BRICS formation will not succumb to the International Monetary Fund and the conditionalities of the IMF...

FAITH-BASED ORGANIZATIONS’ POSITION ON THE PLANT BREEDERS’ BILL AND GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISMS IN ACCRA ON 19TH JUNE 2014

Felix M’mboyi, a Kenyan scientist, made world headlines late last year when he denounced the opponents of genetic modification in agricultural crops.