
A historian counters the popular view that the 1989 collapse of the Berlin Wall set in motion talks to end apartheid. The process was unstoppable by...

Eight countries are projected to be behind 50% of the growth in population over the next three decades. Five are in Africa. the Democratic Republic of...

The UN's climate change summit opened in Egypt with a warning that our planet is "sending a distress signal”. It is disconcerting that developed nations have...

Africa’s development depends on global rapprochement and overcoming its own lowest-common-denominator politics.

A key issue for African countries is: how to contribute towards averting a climate disaster without compromising economic growth and development.