New Report Reveals Somalia’s Missing Millions
The government in Somalia has reportedly not been accountable with the foreign aid it has received, with much money arriving in powerful individuals’ pockets and not the general population.
Triumph of Green Capital at Rio+20
This article addresses the tactics used by corporations to appear as though they have solutions to environmental problems while, in reality, they are continuing the policies that cause the most environmental degradation.
Algeria and the Arab Spring
This article examines the hopes and prospects for democratization in Algeria.
Time to Recall the Land Grabbers
This speech (delivered before the Swedish parliament) addresses the impact that land grabbing has on peasants throughout the world, particularly in Africa.
Global and national resistance to GMOs
This article articulates an argument against the use of genetically modified organisms and discusses the reasons why states and non-state actors have resisted this practice and how they have done so.
Rio+20
Social policies and instruments will need to be developed to ensure that the Green Economy not only alleviates poverty and improves equity, but that the interests of the people who depend on Green Economy are deliberately safeguarded from the very outset.
Egypt’s other revolution: Modernizing the military-industrial complex
Planners in the Egyptian military want to boost the old defense-industrial complex by cultivating new smaller scale projects that partner the Egyptian armed forces with a diverse portfolio of second- and third-tier foreign defense manufacturers.
Some Truth and Justice for Rwanda at Last
Who shot down President Habyarimana’s plane, triggering the 1994 genocide? A report by two French judges has definitively resolved one of the controversial mysteries of the late 20th century. Gerry Caplan considers the implications in the light also of the extradition of alleged genocidaire Leon Mugesera.
Challenging Climate Apartheid
The climate conference in Durban has led some observers to conclude that developed countries are engaged in a form of apartheid against the rest of the world. But Nnimmo Bassey hopes negotiators will heed the voices of the people.
On Seeds
Funding for agricultural development – some US$7.7 billion worth – would be directed in large part to genetically modified crop research. In other words, food aid policy for the first time mandates the use of genetic modification technologies.
The Last Colony in Africa
‘There is no greater sorrow on earth than the loss of one’s native land.’ Euripides, 431 BC
Wambui Otieno’s Mau Mau
‘With her death on 30 August 2011, Wambui Otieno-Mbugua joins the pantheon of African women activists who devoted their lives to struggles against colonial and post-independence political regimes and against systems that favoured and still do favour men over women,’ writes Elsie Cloete.
Libya Could Break Up Like Somalia
The revolution in Libya, led by a motley group of democrats and Islamists and their imperialist allies, is likely to entrench the deep divisions in the country, writes Samir Amin, warning of the possibility of disintegration of the nation.
Land ‘investment’ deals in Africa: Say ‘no way!’
Land investments – the purchase or lease of vast tracts of land from mostly poor, developing countries by wealthier food-insecure nations and private investors for the production and export of food and agrofuel crops – have become a very fast-paced international phenomenon.
Genuine Partnership or a Marriage of Convenience?
India and China, two leading emerging economies in the world, are competing with each other, as well as Africa’s traditional western trading partners, to build a stronger relationship with Africa.