Governance

A profound change has taken hold in Africa over the last decade and half. So has a change in the world's perception of the continent.

"The future of humanity is in great measure in your own hands, through your ability to organize and carry out creative alternatives" – Pope Francis at the Second World Meeting of Popular Movements in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, Thursday, July 9, 2015.

Asylum quests have become toxic issues in just about every affluent country. Even saving lives along the Mediterranean worries some as a lure that will encourage and facilitate more migrant arrivals.

“Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is always prefaced with the two words ‘much needed,’” my colleague Sarah Bracking insisted last week at a Zimbabwe NGO conference. “Have you ever heard FDI referenced without those two words?” We all shook our heads.

On the night of the 23 August 2012, the infamous Mile 2 Prison was shaken by the surprise execution of nine prisoners, seven Gambians and two Senegalese.

U.S. Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power is on a mission to save Africans from African savagery. She wants you to call 1-800-GENOCIDE so she can pressure the president to send in the Marines or US Special Forces.

INTRODUCTION

The Justice for Walter Rodney Committee has been following with interest the statements of the current government of Guyana through its spokespersons, Ministers Basil Williams (Attorney General) and Raphael Trotman (Governance Minister).

As has become tradition over the past several years, the world descended on Offa, Kwara state, in North Central Nigeria on August 12 to celebrate one of Africa’s greatest sons.

Thousands of young Tunisians drown trying to make their way to Europe, hoping that the West can offer a life that their own country cannot.