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No Comment: The Clock is Ticking
This video is courtesy ‘The Girl Effect’, a global movement which aims to empower adolescent girls to end poverty for themselves and the world.Filed under: Africa, Algeria, Americas, Asia, Australia,...
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ICC finds DRC’s Lubanga guilty of using child soldiers
In its first verdict since it was established about a decade ago, three judges in the Netherlands-based International Criminal Court this morning unanimously found Thomas Lubanga guilty of using child...
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No Comment: “I’m so Happy”
Filed under: Africa, Americas, Asia, Britain, Climate Change, Colonialism, Debate Issues, Development, DR Congo, Economic Development, Economics, Environment, Ethics, Farming, Ghana, Ivory Coast,...
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Jeffrey Sachs: Global health within our grasp, if we don’t give up
This is a reblog, courtesy of CNN International There is a hidden revolution at work that can transform the lives of a billion of the poorest people on the planet. The dream of health for all, even the...
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Photography: 21st century farming in Ethiopia
These photos were taken by Tom Levitt for Getty images. Usually reserved for men, the career of herding livestock is slowly becoming available to women in Ethiopia. This shift is a direct consequence...
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Felicity Kendal: On World Africa Day Isn’t it Time We Start to See Africa...
This is a reblog from Huffington Post UK. Felicity Kendal is a British film, theatre and television actress. In a taxi somewhere on the streets of West London the cab driver turned to me and said “What...
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DRC’s Lubanga sentenced to 14 years in Prison
In March, I wrote about the Democratic Republic of Congo’s former leader of the Union of Congolese Patriots Thomas Lubanga guilty of recruiting child soldiers to use in his rebel armies from 2002-2003,...
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Congo Mining Deal at heart of Corruption Allegations
A London business has acquired all the shares of a Congolese mining company, in the middle of a corruption scandal involving the industry’s investment in Africa and the Congolese government. ENRC...
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Governing Land for Men and Women
The Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) have just released their latest report, titled ‘Governing Land for Men and Women’, which is a technical guide to support the achievements of responsible...
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27 Myths about the Developing World
I found this article on Global Citizen and wanted to share it. There was a lot here that made me think, but many of these myths have been debunked by most academics and professionals in development....
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African Myths, Busted
We’re all guilty of some stereotypes about Africa – I’ve never been there and I can assure you I have my own, mostly based on literature and my academic interests in development studies. That’s not the...
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