Human Security

On October 20, 2011, the leader of the North African state of Libya was brutally assassinated in the city of Sirte. Col. Muammar Gaddafi had been leading a struggle to defend his country from a war of regime-change coordinated and financed by the United States and NATO.

INTRODUCTION

Quite early this year, I began to prepare for a paper on the role or involvement of Africa and Africans in the war of 1914-1918 or, alternatively, the Great War or the First World War. 2014 is the 100th anniversary of this war.

“A Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home, and it should be used for that protection which the law refuses to give.

A startlingly similar pattern has revealed communities who are struggling for self-determination and participation in local development; tyranny by allegedly corrupt ward councilors; collusion, shoddy workmanship and price fixing amongst private companies allegedly complicit in tender rigging; a

“Music Played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into battle”
… Heinrich Heine – (1797-1856)

The staggering accumulation of crises in recent months seems to have overshadowed the ongoing sectarian bloodbath between the Muslim and Christian communities in the Central African Republic.

A special session at the 69th United Nations General Assembly discussed the spread of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in several West African states. Numerous world leaders including the African Union (AU) Commission Chair Dr.

Early in September United States President Barack Obama announced that he had carried out a targeted assassination killing the leader of the Al-Shabaab Islamic resistance organization in Somalia which has been fighting against the Federal Government and a regional military force for over six year

17 September 2014

We, South African Jewish Voices for a Just Peace (JVJP) refer to the op-ed article in the South African Jewish Report (SAJR) online dated 10 September 2014 in which chairperson of Likud SA, Leon Reich, compares Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, to Hitler and Stalin.