South Africa: A Crisis of Leadership, or Corruption as Usual?

A grouping of opposition parties in the South African parliament led by the official opposition the Democratic Alliance recently proposed a debate to pass a vote of no confidence in the leadership of current South African Presi...
by Gillion Bosman
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International Political Forum

Still Unsustainable; Nairobi

Changing weather patterns! Ozone layer depletion! Melting ice caps! This has been the alarming news across the globe last few years. When climate change became a public concern a few years back, the media presented Kenya with t...
by Fridah Mlemwa
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Libya’s struggle from dictatorship to democracy

The Co-founder of the Libyan Youth Movement spoke at an event organised by the International Political Forum on 27 February 2015. This article includes reflections of the discussion that was held on the day about LYM’s ro...
by Rima Amin
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Human Trafficking in the Sinai: The Price of a Human Life

”Listen, you have one and a half hours to get the money and meet me, that’s your last chance or you can forget the whole thing.” Meron Estefanos, Swedish-Eritrean journalist and human rights activist, who received this me...
by Boel Marcks von Würtemberg
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International Political Forum

Mandela: The last Of The Global Icons?

Mandela, as the eulogies which were sent from all corners of the globe showed, was a man revered by almost everybody. At his funeral Obama mixed with Raul Castro, Robert Mugabe and Oprah Winfrey. As we lose the last of the grea...
by Joe Corry-Roake
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“Development’s Cinderella”

Every woman I know attests to the fact that they absolutely hate the time of the month when they receive their period. It does not matter whether you have access to sanitary pads and tampons, a hot water bottle and pain killers...
by Ruth Nyambura
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Kenyan Elections: Perspectives from an Inadvertently Unregistered Voter

March 4th will be an historic day for Kenya. We will be electing the president under a new constitutional dispensation. In addition to the president’s post, Kenyans will be selecting the candidates that they want to fill five...
by Eunice Kilonzo
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Of Trading Partners, Integration and the East African Community

With various interconnectivity projects between Uganda and Tanzania; Ethiopia and Kenya and Kenya and Rwanda, the region has taken action to improve trade competitiveness through the improvement of regional hard and soft infras...
by Eunice Kilonzo
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The 5 Most Dangerous Gangs In The World

At the moment it seems like a new incident of religiously-driven gang violence is appearing in the newspapers every day. What with the recent Kenyan mall massacre and the Nairobi school shooting, it seems like we have a chain r...
by Maddie Barber
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