Opinion

South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma stirred up quite a billow of national uproar recently, when he was quoted by the South African Times newspaper as having suggested that much of the country’s current socioeconomic problems […]

Following his dismissal as ANC Youth Leader, and the suspension of his membership from the ruling African National Congress, for his inordinate use of abusive and divisive rhetoric, I had intended on composing a follow-up […]

The announcement by Ghana’s Minister for Environment, Science and Technology at a United Nations’ conference on climate change in Durban, South Africa, that the National Democratic Congress (NDC) government was in the process of banning […]

Ein internationales Forscherteam aus England und der Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin hat neue Erkenntnisse zur Funktion von Muskelstammzellen vorgelegt, die in der aktuellen Ausgabe der Fachzeitschrift Nature Genetics* veröffentlicht sind. In ihrer Arbeit beschäftigten sich […]

Altaf Abdullah al-Mahdi, 40, has found it increasingly difficult to feed her family in the Yemeni capital, Sana’a, since she and her 19-year-old daughter, Baghdad, lost their jobs as cleaners in a plastic factory, 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, […]

Concerns about the changing balance of power in the Asia-Pacific are fuelling a debate in Australia about the potential acquisition of 100 F-35s. The decision is important in a country where maintaining regional air superiority […]

In the wake of the Wikileaks leakage on Ghana which has a lot of prominent government and public officials making arrant fools of themselves, as well as seriously tarnishing the image of the country, the […]