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Next year, the ANC will hold its national conference, and the question on everyone’s lips will be whether the party will forsake Zuma – just as it did Mbeki in 2007. If so, this maneuver […]

Former President Jerry John Rawlings says the drought in Somalia should be a wake-up call to all African leaders that “we may have solved our problems; but certainly we still have problems”. Describing the drought […]

There’s nothing like a soothing hand to calm a fevered brow. This is what in effect Donald Tusk, the Polish prime minister, offered when in the European parliament on 6 July 2011 he introduced his […]

The agriculture ministers of major economies, rich as well as emerging, meeting for the first time as the world verges on another food crisis in only four years, have disappointed. Their decisions, summed up in […]

Prince Albert II of Monaco has shown his personal support for a medical accord with UNHCR by visiting a five-year-old Iraqi refugee recovering from heart surgery in Monte Carlo. The Monaco leader called on Basim […]

Thousands of civilians have fled their homes in the coastal town of Zinjibar, capital of Yemen’s Abyan Governorate, some 500km southeast of Sana’a, following three days of intensified army ground attacks and air strikes against […]

The death toll has risen sharply in the last few days of fighting in the Yemeni capital of Sana’a and hundreds of people have reportedly fled their homes, raising the possibility of a humanitarian crisis, […]

As the International Coalition’s involvement in the Libyan crisis crosses the 60th-day mark, some glimpses into how NATO intends to prosecute the “Gaddafi-must-go” agenda henceforth have begun emerging for us to know—and be persuaded—that the […]