Comment & analysis

But for the pressure from some Western countries, led by America, the recently sacked army chiefs in Nigeria, prompted by their commander in chief, would have derailed the election that brought Muhammadu Buhari to power in March.

Politicians like preachers’ trade on hope and fear; hope, that unquantifiable substance, never loses value and is never in short supply. It is little wonder that churches are sprouting in new places every day or that politicians saddled with scandal or baggage almost always get a second chance.

During the struggle in South Africa black activists who were captured by the state had a strange habit of jumping to their deaths from the windows of jails and courthouses whenever the authorities would turn their backs. In the U.S.

A recent report from Pro Publica reveals that the American Red Cross raised half a billion dollars for Haiti after the earthquake of 2010 and built just six homes there.

As the cock crew in the early hours of the morning, Address Makaya (39) knew it was time to leave the comfort of her blankets and get to work.

More than five years ago, in the dark negotiating halls of the Copenhagen climate talks, an agreement was struck that included a pledge of 100 billion dollars (Kshs.

The Union of Murdered Gambians
Central Cemetery of Victims of the Jammeh Regime
Banjul, The Gambia
July 22, 2015

President Yahya Jammeh of The Gambia
Private Mail Bag
State House
Banjul, The Gambia

Field trials of GMO cotton, genetically modified Bt cotton, have been going on in three northern areas in Ghana, according to a news report pub

19 July 2015

“By the end of next week, the opportunity to reform COSATU may be gone,” said Zwelinzima Vavi, the former general secretary of the South African labor confederation that was once a pillar of the struggle against white minority rule, but now acts as an extension of the ruling political party, the