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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

In November 2015, the Guardian ran a

A wedge is being quickly driven through Pretoria’s political elite, splitting even those who operated tightly together in the murky 1980s Durban spy scene during the fight against apartheid.

The recent global and national political and economic crises have demonstrated the complexity and stresses of the milieu in which governments function.

In Brazil, a drought combined with an overlapping fiscal crisis and lack of public and market believability in the government’s ability to deal with these, plunged the country into economic freefall.

The drought scorched Brazil’s agriculture sector, hitting exports, income and jobs.

The recent flurry of post-Alternative Mining Indaba (AMI) articles have had their moment of fame until next year, but the discussion is welcome as it raises at least two valid points – raised by others over the recent past.

Lured by its potential profits, proponents of oil exploration in Malawi have been placing their hopes on the country becoming an oil-producing nation over the next few years. They argue that its production will bring much needed foreign exchange and economic prosperity to the country.