The biggest United States defence budget since the Cold War is being rammed through Congress by Republicans this week despite questions about waste and the Pentagon’s admission that it cannot account for more than a trillion dollars.
Tackling global poverty is like protecting the environment: it’s something for the good times. There’s no reason why we should stop caring about poor people when times are tough, any more than we should stop caring about climate change or the destruction of the rain forests.
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Three men have been arrested in Nigeria’s economic capital, Lagos, in possession of human skulls and other body parts, a police spokesperson said on Thursday.
Zackie Achmat of the Aids advocacy group Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) has been awarded the prestigious Jonathan Mann Award for Global Health and Human Rights by the Washington-based Global Health Council.
Figures released on Thursday by one of the companies benefiting from the government’s multi-billion rand arms deal showed that much of that benefit was being passed on to the general economy
Thousands of Iscor employees would march to the company’s head office in Pretoria on Friday to demand a wage increase, the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) said on Thursday.
The anti-globalisation movement’s alternative summit opened on Thursday in the south-eastern French town of Annemasse with a challenge to the legitimacy of this weekend’s G8 summit in nearby Evian.
Some of the reasons for Ethiopia’s plight are well known. They include a legacy of misrule under its former dictator, Mengistu Haile Mariam, a swelling population, and flooding. Less well-known has been the devastating impact of slumping coffee prices for a country that relies heavily on coffee exports.
Although the resurgence of conflict, terrorism and drought has diverted attention away from Africa’s longer term needs, a number of positive developments have taken place in recent months.