By Sanou Mbaye

In recent years, China and Africa have formed one of the modern era’s most successful economic and trade partnerships.
China benefits from Africa’s oil, minerals, and markets, while Africa benefits from increased trade and …

By Ryan Elcock

“Defeat the enemy from within by infiltrating the enemy’s camp under the guise of cooperation, surrender, or peace treaties. In this way you can discover his weakness and then, when the enemy’s guard …

By John Fraser for The Inter Press Service

As the African Union celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, it is still younger and less integrated than the 56-year-old body that is now the European Union, and, …

By Tolu Ogunlesi

Africa is all the rage these days. Every week, it seems there’s yet another Africa conference somewhere outside the continent – investors, bankers, journalists diplomats and academics falling over themselves to celebrate a …

Africa is rising not only on the growth charts of economists.
The continent that was a byword for poverty, chaos and bloodshed only a few decades ago, providing a media feast of famines and wars, is …

For all its challenges, Haiti was free of cholera for about a century before a United Nations peacekeeping force arrived from Nepal in October 2010.
Although there had been an outbreak of cholera in Nepal …

Florie Liser, Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Africa
10:00 a.m. – March 11, 2013
By Dennis Matanda
With the flair of a seasoned storyteller, Stephen Lande holds sway over what might have, otherwise, been a mind-numbing topic. Teaching …

By Emmanuel Musaazi

U.S. President Barack Obama making a point during one in a series of meetings in the Situation Room of the White House discussing the mission against Osama bin Laden, May 1, 2011. National …

By Michaëlle Jean

Haiti does not seek charity, it seeks to found itself anew and provide opportunities for all.
Too often, charity is the term that leaps to the lips of people and media when they refer …

By Ryan Elcock

Yesterday, I was enjoying the third season of Spartacus: War of the Damned; rightfully called so because even though Spartacus was victorious in several battles with the Romans, the outcome was already predetermined …