Human Security

On 30 November 2018 the United States Africa Command (AFRICOM) reported that airstrikes were launched on al-Shabaab positions in Lebede killing nine people. (Reuters, 2 December 2018)

The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) President Zingiswa Losi met with sugar cane farmers from Vuvulane, Mafucula and Shewula in Manzini, Swaziland on Tuesday 4 December 2018.

At present, Yemen is facing famine due to the targeting of hospitals, schools and neighbourhoods in an effort to break the will of the people to resist this military onslaught.

Let’s talk axis of evil

Ann Garrison:  On 12 February 2018, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees reported that there were 4.49 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and 630,500 refugees in neighbouring countries.

Reasons are many: Khashoggi was a famous journalist with The Washington Postand was a resident of the United States; he was ferociously critical of the Saudi Crown Prince; he is a Saudi and had a Turkish fiancée.  What makes Khashoggi’s murder of great geopolitica

This analogy came to my mind as I listened to the delegates from mining-affected communities relaying their struggles during the recent pro-poor land reform conference held in Cape Town on 9-11 September.  The conference was organised and hosted by the Alliance for Rural Democracy (ARD)

New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern attracted a lot of media attention at the United Nations General Assembly in New York in September. 

Two large rubber boats set out for Italy from Libya on 1 September 2018. Like countless such craft before them, they were carrying hundreds of people from central, east and north Africa, and as has happened so often, the engine failed on one and the other began to deflate. 

A report in the state-run Zimbabwe Herald newspaper on 20 September said that the cholera outbreak, which has killed over 30 people and sickened more than 5000 others, has been contained in the capital of Harare.