‘Emerging regional powers’ in the South have produced powerful finance capitalists such as the Egyptian firm, Citadel Capital that is buying land, rights to water and precious metals. Allied with global governance institutions, such finance capitalists represent greater control over vital resources and distribution routes for private wealth accumulation

There is no dispute that this planet is undergoing climate change; indeed, throughout history, this planet has suffered much more serious climatic assaults on its surface and its inhabitants. The science, however, is confused by the allegation that there is GLOBAL warming.

The soft drinks manufacturing multi-national bowed to pressure after hundreds of thousands of people appended their signatures to a campaign by Oxfam demanding that Coca-Cola cut links with companies supplying it with sugar from cane grown on grabbed lands

Repossession of land was at the heart of the African struggle for freedom from European colonialism. It is sad that to this day many Africans in ‘independent’ nations still have no access to the most essential resource for human survival

It is political will, leadership, integrity and the effective implementation of laws, rules and regulations that are essential, if the fishery of Lake Victoria, the lifeline to millions of people, is to be saved