Fighting fire with water in Darfur
There is no military solution for the Darfur conflict. But peace may be achieved by better management of the Sudanese region’s dwindling natural resources.
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Africa
Darfur: Fighting fire with water
The situation in Darfur is spinning further out of control. What should the international community do to stop the bloodletting?
Read MoreLibya’s rocky road to reconciliation with Europe
Spectacular diplomatic coups have been flying out of Tripoli in recent months, leading some to call it Muammar Gaddafi’s own ‘perestroika’.
Read MoreArab world and African nations both struggle for EU-style unity
The European Union’s success in achieving security and prosperity through economic integration has become an example for the rest of the world, yet Arabs and Africans are finding it tough to forge their own regional blocs.
Read MoreThe ties that bind Congo and Belgium
As Congolese President Joseph Kabila seeks financial and political backing in Belgium, Belgian troops are already on the ground in Congo helping to train the country’s new army.
Read MoreAfrican Union starts life as EU hits 50
Last week witnessed the quiet passing away of one successful exercise in cooperation and the hopeful birth of another. As the European Coal and Steel Community’s 50-year mandate expired, the African Union (AU) emerged from the ashes of the 39-year-old Organisation of African Unity.
Read MoreGreen activists urge EU to back clean energy drive
Greenpeace is urging the EU to go to Johannesburg armed with stricter targets and to weigh in behind radical proposals to promote clean energy.
Read MoreTropical diseases ignored by companies
The pharameutical industry’s neglect of tropical diseases has deadly consequences for poor people around the world.
Read MoreEuropean integration exposes the fragility of the African unity dream
While Africa seethes in an explosive brew of poverty, war, oppression and disease that threatens to drag it ever downwards, the dream of African unity – even humble monetary unity – being touted by several of the continent’s leaders seems a distant and dim prospect.
Read MoreEgypt urges COMESA members to join free trade area
Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarak opened a summit of a 20-nation African trade bloc, COMESA, with a call for more of its members to join a free trade area.
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