Global South

For many years, the Horn of Africa has been characterized by wars, anarchy, terrorism, piracy and instability. Amid the chaos and uncertainty in the region, Somaliland managed to maintain cordial relations with its neighbouring countries.

The kidnapping of about 270 schoolgirls in Chibok town five weeks ago has drawn widespread global opprobrium.

In the past couple of years a number of international conferences and gatherings of key policy makers, corporate representatives and international NGOs have taken huge strides in setting the global agenda in fisheries policy.

Fifty years ago, China’s first Premier Zhou Enlai paid his first visit to Africa. Now, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang is paying official visits to Ethiopia, Nigeria, Angola and Kenya.

The UK aid budget is intended to tackle poverty - not to create business opportunities for the world's wealthiest and most powerful companies.

Judging simply by its name, the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition sounds like a worthy initiative.

China’s relations with Africa has come under scrutiny recently, with more articles and books having been written about it in the last fifteen years than in the preceding fifty years all combined.

1. The current global stage is dominated by the attempt of historical centres of imperialism (US, Western and central Europe, Japan (called “the Triad”) to maintain their exclusive control over the Planet through a combination of:

A two-day conference on April 2-3 in Belgium was not attended by several key African leaders from Zimbabwe, South Africa, Malawi, Eritrea and Sudan.

Tuesday 8 April 2014, London.

Mallam Danjuma Suleiman, 26, works for the China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC) AK Railway Project in Jere, Kaduna South. The project, worth an estimated $874 million, is financed under the Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme.