These questions penetrate to the heart of the World Bank’s development model and throw its loudly and expensively self-promoted claim to serve the interests of the world’s poor into stark relief.

Dear Friend,

It has been a terrible month for Kenya and a tough last week for South Africa. First the appalling massacre of 147 students at Garissa University College saw many people across the continent joining in solidarity as Kenya grieved.

Several African countries continue to record heinous crimes and acts committed by militant groups vowing to resist attempts to bring order and stability in countries beleaguered by decades of conflict such as Somalia, South Sudan, Central African Republic and parts of the great Lakes Region.

A new report published by the Students’ and Academics’ International Assistance Fund (SAIH) gives evidence to this. 2015 marks the 40th anniversary of the Moroccan occupation of Western Sahara and is also the focus of SAIHs political campaign, launched 13th of April.

LAGOS, NIGERIA, 14 APRIL 2015 – Today makes it exactly one year that 200+ young female students from the Government Girl’s Secondary School Chibok, Borno State, Nigeria were abducted by heavily armed men suspected to be Boko haram Islamist terrorists in the dead of the night from their school dur

10 April 2015

On 8 April 2015, human rights organisations Muslims for Human Rights (MUHURI) and Haki Africa, had their accounts frozen over alleged suspicions of funding terrorism.

LOCHCARRON, SCOTLAND, 16 APRIL 2015: A unique collection of books, monograph series, journals, articles, and other documents on all aspects of publishing and book development in Sub-Saharan Africa is to be shipped from its current location in Lochcarron, a small remote village in the Northwest Sc

Today, 14 April 2015, sadly marks exactly one year since over 200 innocent girls were abducted in their school in Chibok, Nigeria by militant group Boko Haram.

(NAIROBI, APRIL 13, 2015) – The Kenyan government should urgently review the inclusion of human rights organizations on an official list of alleged supporters of terrorism and ensure full respect of due process, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said today.

The letter below was sent on 15 April 2015 to the President of the UN Security Council, HE Dina Kawar, Ambassador of Jordan to the United Nations, with a request for circulation among the Members of the Council.

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