Global South

In spring 2015, Senegalese author Fatou Diome, whose works include The Belly of the Atlantic, caused a stir during the French talk show Ce soir ou jamais!.

I am a white man of 73 years of age, born and raised in the thick of Jim Crow era where state and local laws enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States.

"Moral Bankruptcy: World Bank Reinvents Tainted Aid Program for Ethiopia", a new report released by the Oakland Institute, exposes the shameful reinvention of one of the Bank’s most problematic programs in Ethiopia.

Ouarzazate is a beautiful town in south-central Morocco, well worth visiting.

OXFORD CITY’S CULTURE OF ENLIGHTENMENT

I have worked for the United Nations for most of the last three decades.

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On March 7 the Pentagon announced that it had killed 150 members of the Al-Shabaab guerrilla movement in a bombing operation in Somalia.

The World Bank is a very powerful agency. Its power comes from two sources. Its immunity from lawsuits and its visa office that can give and take away US G4 visa to an expatriate staff and his/her family in the snap of a finger.

Despite my doctor's advice to avoid stress, I read a stressful draft article titled "Black mothers literally dying for their children in the World Bank." [Article appears next in this issue -Editors] The article subtitled "A call for the resignation of World Bank President Jim Yong Kim" carries