Africa
FOOD: Rice is king, but at a price
Most of us, when we worry about food prices, think short term – the price today compared with yesterday; the chance that the price will have gone up again tomorrow. But Oxfam this week risked […]
Month: June 2011
Africa
SOUTH AFRICA: Slumming it in Johannesburg
Johannesburg’s abandoned and neglected inner-city buildings have become slum dwellings for thousands of people, many of them jobless migrants, who endure over-crowding, poor or non-existent sanitation and limited access to running water and electricity because […]
Africa
Libya: As Jacob Zuma fails, can the West “finish the job”? – Asks Dr Michael J.K. Bokor
Hopes that the Libyan crisis will be resolved through an African initiative bordering on diplomatic and political means are gradually fading—and leaving the clout in NATO’s hands to use its military campaign as the solution […]
Africa
African Union Should Steer Clear of Gaddafi’s Libya! – Urges Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D
…the benighted politics of relativism, as seems to constitute the centrality of the African Union’s agenda, is decidedly a historical relic. While in principle, one cannot blame South African president Jacob Zuma for attempting to […]