Human rights body says research indicates the polls are viewed as a nightmare instead of an opportunity
Zimbabwe’s disputed elections have reinforced political divisions as the Constitutional Court hears an opposition challenge of the results.
Avoidance and refusal have become default settings in government as requests for more information are routinely ignored.
Inclusive government was always a misnomer and the elections will only cement its demise, writes <b>Piers Pigou</b>.
An appreciation of the potential of peasant agricultural production in Zimbabwe is not new, argues <b>Piers Pigou</b>.
Indictments leveled at the end of February at seven senior Indonesian military officers for their role in, and responsibility for, the carnage that engulfed East Timor in 1999 comes against a backdrop of growing fears about plans to destabilise East Timor
Unfinished Business: South Africa, Apartheid & Truth is the first publication on how South Africa has tried to deal with its past that does not focus on the workings of the Truth and Reconcilliation Commission (TRC) or the politics and promises of transitional justice. Instead its author, veteran journalist Terry Bell, raises a host of issues that should have received the commission’s attention, but did not. Piecing together "shards and fragments of fact", Bell has provided us with "a series of interrelated images of the past" that question the wisdom of drawing a veil over "the still vast unfinished mosaic of the times of apartheid".