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Famine should not exist in 2022, yet Somalia faces its worst yet. Wealthy countries, pay your dues
20th October 2022 More than a quarter of a million people died of hunger in Somalia in 2011 – half of them children younger than five. The situation in Somalia in... →
Albert Nolan – memories of a non-believer
By: Raymond Suttner 19th October 2022 I first met Albert Nolan when I emerged from prison in 1983. I was then a Communist, although it was illegal to be one and I didn't admit that in... →
Speaker Mapisa Nqakula praises IPU interventions to resolve conflicts and drive transformation of Parliaments towards a better world
17th October 2022 The Speaker of the National Assembly (NA) and the leader of the South African multi-party parliamentary delegation to the 145th IPU General... →
Burkina Faso to hold talks on new transition president
By: Reuters 14th October 2022 Burkina Faso's military officials, political parties and civil society leaders are set to begin talks on Friday to designate a new interim... →
ANC-government abstention from a vote at the UN General Assembly, is a betrayal to South Africans
14th October 2022 This week the ANC-government once again betrayed South Africa’s human rights stance on the international stage. By abstaining from a crucial vote... →
Security priorities for Burkina Faso’s new transition
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 13th October 2022 On 30 September, disgruntled army officers staged a coup that toppled Burkina Faso’s transitional military leader Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri... →
SADR grows theoretically stronger but diplomatically weaker
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 10th October 2022 The Western Sahara has been reduced to a political football in Africa in a grim game between Morocco and the Polisario. Morocco aggressively claims... →
Can external mediation break Sudan’s political stalemate?
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 5th October 2022 October marks the first anniversary of Sudan’s second military coup, which removed the transitional government of Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok and... →
