Human Security

My dear Aung San Suu Kyi

I am now elderly, decrepit and formally retired, but breaking my vow to remain silent on public affairs out of profound sadness about the plight of the Muslim minority in your country, the Rohingya.

How goddamn dumb do Senators Cory Booker, D-NJ, Al Franken, D-MI, and Elizabeth Warren, D-OK, think we are?

“One of the mistakes that some political analysts make is to think that their enemies should be our enemies.” -Nelson Mandela in a response to a question on Ted Koppel’s show during his first trip to the U.S.

Your Excellency President Donald Trump,

What language have we that can grieve Sierra Leone's mudslide disaster? Its enormity and horror smother thought.

To have the ground you walk turn on you. Devour your loved ones. To be forced to bury your family in the same mud that swallowed them.

Earlier this summer, Hussene Antonio walked his herd from a small Mozambican village to some graze-friendly grassland.

On April 27, 2017, a hapless cow wandered off-course during a seasonal cattle drive in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and ended up over the campfire of some Indigenous hunters.

The report is based on inspections of 22 South African wine facilities in March and April.

Genocost, a UK-based Congolese advocacy group, commemorated Congo Genocide on August 2. This is the day that US allies Rwanda and Uganda invaded the Democratic Republic of the Congo, starting the Second Congo War in 1998.

According to figures recently presented by a research project at the Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit (SALDRU) at the University of Cape Town, South Africa’s population classified as middle class increased from 12.8 percent in 1993 to 16.6 percent in 2012.