Global South

Congratulations to President Obama for hosting the US-Africa Leaders Summit. The summit is historic, measured not only by the number of African leaders it assembles but also by the depth and breadth of the issues it brings to the table.

Leaders from the vast bulk of Africa’s nations were summoned to Washington, this week, for a three-day U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit under the theme “Investing in the Next Generation.” According to the White House, the guest list includes all those leaders who are

ABSTRACT: From 2010 to 2012, China allocated a total of 89.34 billion yuan (14.41 billion U.S. dollars) worth of foreign assistance. This amount no doubt is much smaller than the official development assistance of some big traditional donors such as the United States.

At the end of the Sixth BRICS Summit in Fortaleza, Brazil on July 16, 2014, the leaders of the BRICS countries announced the “Fortaleza Action Plan.” This plan is in the context of the Fortaleza Declaration, where the leaders reinforced their position that BRICS would be an international force

Gerardo Cerdas is coordinator of the Latin American- and Caribbean-wide social movement Grito de los Excluidos, Cry of the Excluded. He is also a sociologist and researcher. A native of Costa Rica, Cerdas lives in Brazil.

Few people in Zimbabwe know or care to acknowledge that the country has lost one of its most outstanding persons of global stature. There are not many in Zimbabwe who qualify for this level of exaltation.

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Hon. Amina Abdalla, M.P. - Chairperson
Environment and Natural Resources Committee
Parliament Building, Nairobi

19th May 2014

Dear Hon Amina,

RE: MPs should shelve the new Mining Bill for further stakeholders consultation

Destitution and a government bureaucracy that is easy to manipulate make Kenya a prime space for global terrorism. First of all, it is crucial to appreciate that global terrorism is a business.

A conference on the security concerns of the most populous state in Africa was not held on the continent but in France, a former colonial power in the region.