Governance

Large tracts of land were taken away from farmers -who consider the compensation they were given inadequate- and the neighborhood left with unfixed roads and no adequate drinking water distribution system and health facilities.

Australian mining companies are linked to hundreds of deaths and injuries in Africa, which can go unreported at home.

Some of the Australian Securities Exchange-listed companies include state governments as shareholders. One company recorded 38 worker deaths over an eleven-year period.

On January 6, 2015, Mahmud Umar Muhammad bin Atef and Khalid Muhammad Salih al-Dhuby, two Yemeni nationals held at Guantanamo Bay prison without charge for almost 14 years, were released for resettlement in Ghana.

We are voting to create a new society with a leadership that is competent and cannot be corrupted. We are voting for a leadership that will not steal. We are voting for a leadership that will not lie and cover-up.

We all know what happened. Donald Trump, that bumbling tycoon suddenly thrust into the political limelight, called for a wall to keep the immigrants – the Mexicans, the Muslims, the Syrians and the whoever else, out. The world went crazy.

Slowly but steadily, the ultra-conservative wing of Nigeria’s largely self-absorbed and callous elite is spoiling for a fight. And it’s all about the renewed war against corruption which has induced in this group an emotion that can only be described as culture shock.

Burundi Solidarity Group Memorandum to East Africa Legislative Assembly
Kenyan activists want regional parliament to act on Burundi

From: Burundi Solidarity Group
To: The East African Legislative Assembly
Subject: Concerns about gross human rights violations in Burundi

On 20 December 2015 at 1.13 pm I received a text message notifying me of a stabbing incident at checkpoint 56 in Hebron Old City near Shuhada Street.

“Children’s protection, rights and development have always been close to my heart, and I look forward to doing everything I can to help us deliver on our bold but simple ambitions: that no child under five dies from preventable causes”.

The Republic of Uganda is scheduled to hold its fifth general election on February 18, 2016.