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.
Read MoreThere is no military solution for the Darfur conflict. But peace may be achieved by better management of the Sudanese region’s dwindling natural resources.
Read MoreThe situation in Darfur is spinning further out of control. What should the international community do to stop the bloodletting?
Read MoreBenefit concerts may raise money for famine relief but they also perpetuate the one-dimensional view of Ethiopia as a destitute land with nothing going for it. With its rich past and culture, impoverished present and precarious future, Ethiopia deserves to be explored on its own terms.
Read MoreSpectacular diplomatic coups have been flying out of Tripoli in recent months, leading some to call it Muammar Gaddafi’s own ‘perestroika’.
Read MoreThe 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 MoreAs 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 MoreLast 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 MoreGreenpeace is urging the EU to go to Johannesburg armed with stricter targets and to weigh in behind radical proposals to promote clean energy.
Read MoreThe pharameutical industry’s neglect of tropical diseases has deadly consequences for poor people around the world.
Read MoreWhile 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.
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