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Africa’s Resources: Blessing or Curse?
Sometimes I sit back and wonder whether we Africans are cursed or blessed. In particular, are our natural resources a blessing or a curse? Despite the plentiful resources in the continent of Africa, its people are living in abj...
Death to the Rapists?!
We gave her the name Nirbhaya – ‘fearless’. We made an icon of a terrified woman, brutalised by six men on the night of 16th December – a date we will not be soon to forget. On Friday afternoon, friends texted friends, ...
The Other Special Relationship
There are few countries strong enough to make a cameo in the national debates, let alone acquire their own platform. Of these countries, we are at war with one, potentially with another, and are economically engaged with the la...
Postcard from Pyongyang
Flying from Beijing to Pyongyang is an unsettling journey. Not because you have to fly on Air Koryo – the world’s only one star airline – but because of the reputation that precedes this socialist dictatorship run co...
Daily News Roundup – 15 January 2013
Africa France to deploy more troops to Mali French President Francois Holland says more troops are to be sent to Mali to support the 750 already in the country fighting an Islamist insurgency. Mr Holland said the latest ov...
Philippine Typhoon Survivors Ask: ‘Where is our Government?’
Six days have passed since super typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) hit the central part of the Philippines but relief is not yet given to many survivors. Many dead bodies are still lying in the streets, refugees are begging for food, ...
