BY LOU SIFA When announcing his candidacy for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination in New York on June 16, real estate mogul Donald Trump said with a straight face: “When … Read More
BY LISA FRENCH In a news release on Friday, a provincial commission in Quebec, Canada, announced that it had “de-officialized” the names of eleven Quebec sites that contain the word … Read More
BY HENRIK SELIN As the world’s leaders gather at the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit in New York City this week, they face a busy agenda. Among their many tasks is the …
BY ELLEN JONES AND ROBERTS MEYERS Serena Williams has added to her grand slam singles tally at Wimbledon. Claiming the Venus Rosewater Dish for the sixth time on the famous … Read More
BY TIM HATTON Not since World War II has Europe faced a refugee crisis comparable with the situation unfolding at its borders at the moment. The European response has been, to put …
BY LISA FRENCH This year marks the 20th anniversary of the landmark Fourth Conference on Women held in Beijing in 1995, when 189 countries signed an action plan aimed at …
BY KALU OJAH Africa’s only regional bank, the African Development Bank Group (AfDB), has come a long way since its near collapse in 1995. It now reflects its mandate to fight poverty …
BY ALAN GREEN “There will be no more government, no more democracy. Instead, there will be anarchy and simply every man for himself,” veteran African economist Yacouba Fassassi warns, if … Read More
BY WENJIE CHEN China’s economic engagement in Africa tends to elicit controversy. Many Chinese deals are accompanied by Western headlines such as “China in Africa: Investment or Exploitation?”; or “Clinton … Read More
BY MELISSA E. WOOTEN Trayvon Martin. Michael Brown. Eric Garner. Sandra Bland. Renisha McBride. Martese Johnson. And now Tyrone Harris. All these names remind us how precarious black lives can be. Martin, Brown and Garner were …
