Stories of African migrants in desperate conditions, usually on the Mediterranean Sea heading towards Europe, have become commonplace. It wasn’t always like that.
Human Security
On 7 April 2016, I published an essay on Barack Hussein Obama entitled “‘African American son’: US foreign policy and Africa” (Pambazuka News, 7 April 2016).
We always empathize with the poor. However, it is a paradoxical type of empathy; the sort that places us above them. We think to ourselves: the woman at the bus stage should know better than to have five kids with another clearly on the way.
Presently the government continues its efforts to pass the Traditional Khoi-San Leadership Bill, a piece of legislation riddled with continuities from apartheid and fur
462 military observers, 1,090 police personnel, 18,232 military personnel.
Tagged under Human Security Corporate media, Telema, MONUSCO, DR Congo, Joseph Kabila, Congo wars, Paul Kagame, UN peacekeepers, CNN, Humanitarian intervention
Gulu Municipal Council gave Gulu property owners a 14-day demolition notice in the name of urban development.
Bir Lehlu, Western Sahara (4 May 2017).
Tagged under Human Security Occupied Western Sahara, Morocco, POLISARIO, Saharawi people, Self-determination
General Thomas Waldhauser sounded a little uneasy. “I would just say they are on the ground. They are trying to influence the action,” commented the chief of U.S.
Tagged under Human Security AFRICOM, Camp Lemonnier, US Militarism, War on Terror, Joseph Kony, Muammar Gaddafi, Obama and Africa
In “Kibeho: A Story of Flesh and Blood,” an article published in Foreign Policy Journal, Canadian investigative journalist Judi Rever cites evidence that the Kibeho Massacre was only one instance of t
The numbers are in, but who cares?