Month: May 2008

When I initially heard about the People’s National Convention’s evidently expedient electoral alliance with the rump-Convention People’s Party, I laughed so hard that I almost fell off my chair. I, however, couldn’t stop torrential tears […]

Talk is cheap, as the saying goes; and this is precisely the kind of otiose and regressive maelstrom that most of postcolonial Africa continues to suffer: Cheap talk, woefully unmatched by progressive and constructive deeds. […]

Baghdad, 22 May, 2008— Iraq is suffering from water shortages that could lead to widespread drought as a result of the water policies of neighbouring countries and an unusually dry winter, the Iraqi Water Resources […]

Washington, 22 May, 2008— Africans should “take the initiative” to develop Africa’s science and technology sector in cooperation with and with assistance from the United States and other developed countries in order to stimulate a […]

Washington, 22 May, 2008— The Leon H. Sullivan Foundation’s June 2-6 summit in the cities of Arusha and Zanzibar in Tanzania will explore a wide range of themes — including investment, infrastructure, tourism and the […]

Washington, 22 May, 2008— The man responsible for overseeing U.S. and coalition operations in Iraq is preparing to take on the much broader mission of marshalling all U.S. military efforts in the region extending from […]

Mankind through the ages had been drifting from its societies and criss-crossing more advanced western societies for education and on the large scale for greener pasture or a means of livelihood. Africans in particular are […]

Johannesburg, 17 May, 2008— Banning a military weapon said to inflict a 98 percent civilian casualty rate is seen by many as an open-and-shut case, but for two weeks government representatives and interested parties will […]