Africa & Beyond

After the forces of evil have eaten out the hearts of corrupt sons and daughters of darkness, and after the appearance of the red four moons, the cleansing of the…

The late Madiba, Nelson Mandela, had spent about 27 years in a Robben Islands prison under the apartheid era before gloriously returning to become the first black President of his…

“It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit”. – Harry Truman Consequentially, Obama’s visit to Havana, Cuba is historic and reconciliatory. Cuba…

Milsovic and Karadzic have paid the supreme price for the arrogance of power.  The verdict of history is always long in coming. So, will other political criminals in all nations.…

Brussels, the Belgian capital was hit on Tuesday,22nd March, 2016,between 8 a.m and 9:10 a.m, by three explosions that killed 34 people and injured about 190. The first two explosions…

The rising incidences of violent conflicts around the world, is posing grave challenges to the security establishments of most countries. Clear pointers to the upsurge in this phenomenon are the…

The on-going presidential primaries of both the Republicans and the Democrats in the race for the party nomination for the American presidential poll coming up in November are getting more and…

President Barack Obama recently described Libya as a “mess” of a country. Indeed Libya, post Ghaddafi, is more than a mess, messed up by a combination of human factors including…

Somalia is found in the Horn of Africa with Mogadishu as capital city. Ever since Mohamed Siad Barre, the late dictator, fled the city in January 1991 the country has…

The price of liberty is eternal vigilance –Thomas Jefferson. The human family at the dawn of the 21st century is faced with many problems: an increasingly polluted and otherwise threatened…

Long before he became Secretary-General of the United Nations, he had already exerted a scholarly influence on the progressive development of international law and diplomatic practice. He played a laudable…

“May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.” — President John Adams moving into the new White House in 1797. (John Adams, a remarkable political philosopher,…

Today’s piece re-examines the wider security implications of the arrest of radical Muslim Cleric, Ahmad al-Assir, by Lebanese authorities at the Beirut’s Rafik Hariri International Airport, Lebanon as he attempted…

Prof. Chukwuma Charles Soludo was the former Central Bank of Nigeria Governor who did many great things during his years in the apex bank faced with daunting challenges. He had…

October 15th 1987 will forever remain indelible in the annals of political history in both Burkina Faso and Africa, for on that day of infamy the youthful revolutionary leader of…

During the colonial days more than a century ago the White men that came to Africa never bothered themselves with passports, visas or ‘yellow cards’ (a yellow-coloured paper testifying to…