The debate about genetically modified organisms (GMOs) is loud and highly polarised across the world. On the one hand there are the supporters, who are convinced that GMOs are the key to food security and that the claims made against them have no basis in science.

May 12, 2013

Mr. Joseph Ole Lenku
Cabinet Secretary of Interior and Coordination of National Government
Harambee House
P.0. Box 30510-00100
Nairobi
KENYA

SUBJECT: Concern over the transfer of refugee journalists to designated areas

The African Women’s Development and Communication Network, FEMNET, has called on hundreds of its members across over 40 African countries to organize and mobilize peaceful demonstrations at Nigerian Embassies around the continent on Thursday, 15th May 2014, also the International Day of the Famil

LAGOS, NIGERIA, 30TH APRIL 2014 –Bearing in mind that in almost every conflict situation, women and children are most likely to be affected, the abduction of 234 young female students from the Government Girls Secondary School Chibok, Borno State, Nigeria, by heavily armed men suspected to be Isl

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News on Countries of Origin

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Detention and Deportation News

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Event Announcements: Harvard Clinical Programme & UNHCR Annual Consultations

Grants & Awards

In 2011, Sierra Leone spent more on tax give-aways than on its development priorities, with mining firms the biggest beneficiaries.

The following year, the tax exemptions amounted to more than eight times Sierra Leone’s health budget and seven times its education budget.

I have often wondered
Whether I should concede my identity to the mores of the Ivory Tower
Whether I should let the snob define who I am,
And whether I should, in the midst of this madness,
Let my African-ness speak less,
Than this mess that erased,

ABOUT THE ROLE

For a millennia migration was a natural phenomenon that marked the evolution of humanity.

Tuesday 8 April 2014, London.