The Somali pirates roaming the waters off the Horn of Africa push global trade costs up by billions of dollars per year and severely affect the economic activities of neighbouring countries, a new...
Campaigners are celebrating the decision by Barclays to bow to pressure from them and end its controversial global speculation on food. The giant multinational bank made up to an estimated £278...
Red Cross attacks US for force-feeding Guantanamo prisoners
Humanitarian organisation the Red Cross has urged the Obama administration to address the situation in Guantanamo Bay that has compelled prisoners to starve themselves.They have criticised force-...
The expression on Moses Kamba's face is cold and hard, and there is a bitter tone in his voice when he talks. Five years ago, soldiers in his former hometown in the east of the Democratic...
Margaret Thatcher: the woman who 'wrecked Great Britain'
Aging punk rockers, trade-unionists and decent people around the world greeted the news of the passing of Margaret Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, with something less than respectful restraint, writes...
Investors, health care specialists, media workers and scholars were among the people who gathered for the launch of a new organisation to promote business opportunities in a region of the wor ...
We’re delighted to bring you a brand new site. After months of work, the wonderfully talented developer Juan Breinlinger has made it for us to unveil today. Throughout the painstaking p ...
More than 450 people filled a banqueting room to overflowing at a top London hotel for an awards ceremony that celebrated the achievements of people from a southern African country some of whose & ...
Karen HatterImagine if you will, waking up in a world in which you believe all that you knew and loved has been turned upside down. In general, it’s a feeling that is borne out, by all the indicators...
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