Human Security

On 16 March 2018, Botswana became one of a dozen countries in East and Southern Africa that have launched its national demographic dividend study, at a milestone event officiated by the then-incoming President, the Honourable Mokgweetsi EK Masisi.

The African National Congress and the booze industry are looking down on Mandela’s rainbow baby, beaten and battling to breathe. They arrange themselves for a photo-shoot, and then mutter to the press, “it’s sad, very sad. But hang on, is she as bad as the kids over the road?”  

A leader of the second largest political party in the West African state of Ghana, the Deputy Secretary General of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Koku Anyidoho, was arrested on 27 March 2018 after making comments about the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government of current President Nana Aku

In 2006-2007, the world economic downturn was sharply felt right here in this municipality and throughout the state of Michigan.

“Economists explain how production takes place in the … relations, but what they do not explain is how these relations themselves are produced, that is, the historical movement that gave them birth.”    Marx: The Poverty of Philosophy

Cholera is caused by bacteria that infect the stomach. Only when the bacteria reach a critical level does an infected person have symptoms, which are high fever, vomiting and diarrhoea.

In February 2018, Emil Boss, a former employee at Swedish retailer Systembolaget, visited South African vineyard Leeuwenkuil and Middelburg, one of the farms that supply the grapes to Leeuwenkuil, who in turn sell wine to Systembolaget.

The author of this article participated in the conference and proposed that the task of saving Lake Chad was multifaceted but required above all; social peace, political will, political mobilisation and the harnessing of the financial and material resources of Africa to reverse global warming and

“In the aftermath of the civil war, the much-expanded size of the military, around 250,000 in 1977, consumed a large part of Nigeria’s resources under military rule for little productive return.”

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