Month: October 2011

Die ehemalige ukrainische Ministerpräsidentin Julia Timoschenko wurde heute wegen Amtsmissbrauchs zu 7 Jahren Haft und zu einer hohen „Entschädigungszahlung“ verurteilt. Im Anschluss an die Haftstrafe soll sie 3 Jahre lang keine öffentlichen Ämter ausüben können. […]

International human rights law meanders between the vague and the hazy when it comes to its stance on the age of criminal responsibility and what, if any, punishments should be imposed on child soldiers guilty […]

Ghana has ranked 7th with a score of 66, out of the 53 African countries, in the latest ‘2011 Ibrahim Index of African Governance’ released by the Mo Ibrahim Foundation on Monday. Established in 2006, […]

Coastal areas in Kenya provide a vivid illustration of the factors that thwart agricultural potential across much of Africa: small plot sizes, minimal irrigation and endemic poverty, which precludes investment, and in turn, greater productivity. […]

Al-Shabab insurgents remain a potent force in Somalia, but there is no public hint of talks on the horizon to reach a political settlement. The suicide bombing by Al-Shabab in Mogadishu on 4 October, which […]

Catherine Bertini, the former head of the World Food Programme is beating a drum for teenage girls, especially those girls who live in rural areas of developing countries. “These girls have incredible potential, she says, […]

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicholas Sarkozy said in Berlin after talks that they have agreed to introduce important changes to the eurozone debt crisis. Addressing a joint press conference at the chancellery, […]

Moulid Iftin Hujale has spent 14 of his 24 years in the world’s largest refugee complex, Dadaab, in eastern Kenya, close to his home country, Somalia. As well as working with an NGO in the […]