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Peace is fragile in divided Mali
WHILE the armed conflict in Mali has been won on the ground, particularly through the intervention [...]
Robert Mugabe hopes for another election victory in Zimbabwe
ZIMBABWE has been living under a one-party state, dominated by Robert Mugabe and the Zanu-PF power [...]
Pakistan new government to tread warily over US relations
A TRIUMPHANT Nawaz Sharif takes office – for the third time – as Pakistan’s prime minister, and top [...]
Mamphela Ramphele takes on ANC in South African politics
ONE OF South Africa’s most prominent women activists 65-year-old Mamphela Ramphele - the widow of [...]
Crime and drugs still an issue between Mexico and the US
A TWO-DAY visit to Mexico by US President Barack Obama in early May 2013 raised issues covering [...]
Germany relies on UK to make Europe’s economy work
THE IDEA that British Prime Minister David Cameron and his creaking coalition government will [...]
Berlusconi and Napolitano are key men in Italy’s politics
PRESIDENT Giorgio Napolitano, an 87-year-old with limited powers according to Italy’s constitution [...]
Francois Hollande faces tough choice stabilising French economy
UNEMPLOYMENT in France is soaring and the historical record of 3.2 million out of work has been [...]
Tunisia’s Jasmine Revolution is not over yet
IT IS clear that Tunisia’s Jasmine Revolution is not over yet, even though its people succeeded in [...]
BRICS countries following different agendas
BRAZIL, Russia, India, China and South Africa together represent 27 per cent of the world’s gross [...]
Pakistan’s election follows economic decline and rising militancy
PAKISTAN faces major energy problems, economic decline and rising militancy. It will also test its [...]
Guinea-Bissau admiral arrested in international drugs sting
GUINEA-BISSAU remains locked in a vicious circle of poverty, political instability, human rights [...]
Malaysia faces closest general election in more than 50 years
MORE than 13 million Malaysian voters will decide on May 5, 2013, whether they want to topple the [...]
Pressures mount on Turkey to settle Kurdish question
THE KURDISH question poses the greatest challenge to the future of the existing system of states in [...]
Power to the people – or judges and banks?
THE election of Uhuru Kenyatta as President of Kenya in March 2013 was well received across the [...]
Mozambique among world’s fastest-growing economies
MOZAMBIQUE, a poor and underdeveloped East African country with most of its 23.4 million population [...]
Oil price is key to success for Venezuela’s President Maduro
NICOLAS Maduro, hand-picked by Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez as his successor, and interim president [...]
Italy ignores need for economic reforms – for now
EVERYBODY knows Italy is in trouble. Growth is negative, there is no sight of an end to recession, [...]
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