Changemaker of the Week: Valens Ntamushobora & the Women of Rwanda
Starting with an idea and mobilising his own skills though a youth leadership and innovation program, the Sprout e-course, Valens created the Lusa Program initiative (LP). The Lusa Program provides Rwandan women with access to ...
Chinese Investment In Africa: Sustainable Development Or Neocolonialism?
China’s rapid economic interest in the African continent is quite possibly the most important trend in the Africa’s foreign relations since the end of the Cold War. In 1990 Sino-African trade hit the $1 billion mark. A deca...
Europe And Separatism: First Crimea, Now Venice. Will Scotland And Catalonia Also Vote For Independence?
The recent referendum in Crimea and the subsequent annexation of the peninsula by Russia has captured much of world’s attention of late. It has also ignited discussions about secessionism in Europe, which is quite relevant ...
Daily News Roundup – 21 November 2012
Africa Benghazi police chief assassinated Colonel Farraj al-Dursi, the police chief of the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, has been assassinated overnight, officials have said. Col Dursi was targeted outside his home in a...
Decriminalising Libel in the Philippines
“A public and malicious imputation of a crime, or of a vice or defect, real or imaginary, or any act, omission, condition, status or circumstance tending to discredit or cause the dishonor or contempt of a natural or juri...
Northern Nigeria: Beyond Bombs, Bullets And Boko Haram
Four months after the Nigerian Government declared a state of emergency in three North Eastern states, international media coverage is zoning in on the atrocities committed by the militant terrorist group Boko Haram, compani...
