Planeloads of South Sudanese refugees from Israel have been landing in South Sudan’s capital of Juba over the past few weeks. Many of them had been living in the poor neighborhoods of Hatikva and Shapira in southern Tel Aviv, working in such jobs as hotel chambermaids or waiters.

Islam has a long history in Ethiopia, after Christianity. Ethiopia was the first country that sheltered the first Muslims who called it home, escaping persecution from Arabia, their homeland.

Approximately 10, 000 workers from the Labour Quami Movement (LQM), a nascent power-loom workers' movement, began a 155-km march from the industrial city of Faisalabad to Lahore, the capital of Punjab, to demand that factory owners comply with minimum wages.

Dear President Barack Obama,

A mad scramble for Nigeria has been underway since 1999. The name of the game is called privatisation. It was a programme put in place to dispose of some 1,000 state-owned enterprises and institutional buildings to a few highly placed Nigerians and their foreign collaborators.

My first discovery as I disembarked from the defunct Nigerian Airways Boeing 737I that July evening was the heat. It was around 6pm but even at that time of the day, the heat could, permit the choice of words, ‘fry an egg’.

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An Egyptian TV anchor says: “The elected Egyptian president Mohamed Morsy is attending the African Union’s 19th presidents’ summit”. What are the connotations of this piece of news in the present Egyptian context?

The recent surge of unconnected community protests across South Africa confirms the country’s profound social, economic and environmental contradictions.