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BRICS Summit 2013
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South Africa Within the BRICS: Friend or Foe to the Rest of Africa?

South Africa’s inclusion within the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) poses the thought of how relations will be affected between South Africa and the rest of Africa. The 5th BRICS summit will definitely t...
by Kamleshan Pillay
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Egypt

‘One Nation’ – Two Narratives

Cairo has so far been spared the same fate as Damascus, but sure enough, the sounds of fireworks and jubilant crowds that greeted the coup of July 3rd have now been replaced by the grimmer sounds of sirens and gunfire across E...
by Owen Stenner
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Africa
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Spain’s Southern Border Faces Yet Another Scandal

This much we know: at around 6 in the morning on Thursday, on the 6th of February, a group of around 250 people headed towards the Spanish-Moroccan border in Ceuta. Members of the Guardia Civil, the police force in control of S...
by Daniel Cavanillas
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Africa
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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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Africa

Applying Sense to Regional Integration

Regional and market integration has the capacity to unleash untapped potential in Africa especially from an economic point of view. The creation of a unified policy on trade can help remove trade barriers between neighbouring s...
by Mark Mngomezulu
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Africa
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Banning Uganda From The 2014 Commonwealth Games In Glasgow

There is much pressure from the international community to stop Uganda from participating in the 2014 Commonwealth games in Glasgow. This is because Uganda has undermined human rights by denying gay people the power to marry wh...
by Harriet Owalla
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Africa

Focus on Africa: Two mainstream African arguments I have refused to accept

My country Kenya – as is the case with many countries in Africa – is effecting numerous political, economic and social changes to conform to current international best practices. These projects are focused on renova...
by George Gachara
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Europe

Radi-Aid: Africa for Norway {Video}

Brr..it’s COLD in Norway! The charity aid single has been flipped on its head! Radi-Aid: Africa for Norway is a campaign by The Norwegian Students’ and Academics’ International Assistance Fund, that aims to challenge...
by Natasha Lipman
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Africa

From Here to Timbuktu: The Case for Intervention

Since April this year, rebels – made up of Tuareg separatists and radical Islamists with links to Al-Qaeda – have gained hold of northern Mali. Boosted by the surplus of weapons plundered from Gaddafi’s stashes and the sk...
by David Rutter
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