South Africans mark 55 years since one of the worst apartheid-era mass killings, but other atrocities are still forgotten.
Using a little girl as a human bomb is despicable, but the military is not blameless in the conflict, writes Azad Essa.
Some are more equal than others, which calls Western values into question.
In his e-book "No Country For The Poor", journalist Azad Essa tracks the path of two countries which head to the polls. Here is an excerpt.
A third of the Central African Republic refugees in Boyabo are aged between 18 and 30, and they are "dangerously" idle.
Al-Jazeera is only one part of a puzzle of the growing restrictions on the freedom of expression of ordinary Egyptians, writes Azad Essa.
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/ 27 November 2009
Ali was barely five years old when the Berlin Wall came down. Twenty years later, he sells remnants of Germany’s communist past to tourists.
Without the glam of Hollywood endorsement, Kiva has been quietly connecting ordinary concerned citizens to aspirant entrepreneurs in the Third World.
He was just 10 years old at the time of his chance encounter with namesake — Imran Khan, a Pakistani and world cricket legend.
South African cricket selectors reacted swiftly to the Proteas’ loss by making decisive changes to the squad for the final match in Cape Town.