It is difficult to call the recent gathering in Montreux, Switzerland, a ‘peace conference’ on Syria, since the U.S. and its allies are determined to change the regime by force of arms. Washington has forged an ‘unholy alliance with its ‘Wahhabi allies from Saudi Arabia and al-Qaeda,’ who act as America’s ‘boots on the ground.’

Justice Africa calls for support for civil society engagement in transformation processes in South Sudan

The groups say open and free dialogue that yield a mutually accepted agreement reached through the informed opinion of all the concerned parties, are the only way to resolve the current political differences

South Sudan is at a crossroads. The government might have to swallow its pride and reward Riek Machar‘s unconstitutional and deadly political actions. Any attempt to punish him could backfire terribly. But this option has its own dangers as well

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The much-hyped defeat of the M23 rebels in eastern Congo means little, unless firm action is taken to deter Rwanda and Uganda, both US allies, from destabilizing of the country.

Can Pretoria’s delegation to the Conference of the Parties COP19 in Warsaw – the annual UN Framework Convention on Climate Change summit which opened on Monday and closes on November 22 – make a convincing statement that one of the world’s highest per-capita greenhouse-gas polluters is reforming?

The atrocious war in Congo is tied to the huge appetite in the west for strategic minerals essential to the electronics and military industries. The criminal regimes in Uganda and Rwanda sponsor proxy militias whose violence facilitates the smuggling of these minerals through the two African nations.

Has the M23 rebel group been defeated? No. And there is nothing in the recent reportage in major western media that tells anything close to the whole truth about the ongoing genocide and depopulation in DRC

The Obama administration is concerned with the prevention of mass atrocities mainly when it is in alignment with US interests. However, in the case of the deadliest conflict in the world where US allies are the aggressors, R2P is rarely if ever mentioned or invoked

Capitalism is at the root of corruption in Ghana. The desperation to make money at all costs is now the way of life. Everything thing depends on how much one can afford, as the state does not take its own social responsibility to its citizens seriously

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More than 40 former African heads of state and government oppose foreign military intervention and urge continuation of efforts to bring the two sides to a negotiating table to find a peaceful solution to the conflict

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Samar Al-Bulushi is interviewed by Jaisal Noor on the recent Westgate mall terrorist attack by Al-Shabaab. Al-Bulushi argues that it is not widely known that the Kenyan government has arisen as a prominent partner of the US government in its war on terror

We have the ability to limit climate change’s negative effects but only if we act, only if we change, only if we critically revisit and redefine what it is that drives us. We must revisit the goals that motivate us and between ourselves and our environment

Steal big and damn the consequences. After all, law is made to be broken! No one should delude himself that a tainted person will back laws that could mean a long spell in jail for them. That is the tragedy in Nigeria’s war against corruption

A draconian law passed recently is symptomatic of a larger concern: a shrinking of political space in the country and continued human rights violations that jeopardise the fragile peacebuilding process

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The life expectancy of Afro-Brazilians is lower than that of other groups, and homicides are the principal cause of death for Black males between the ages of 15 and 29 years and who, often, live in poor urban settlements