Mandela prison guard: Despite Mandela’s occupation with greater good, he selflessly helped people around him
“Nelson Mandela – I’d never heard the name before in my life,” a former prison guard to the South African icon recalls. Christo Brand casts his mind back to 1978, and his first night guarding one of the most influential people of the past century. He was just 19 years...
African peacekeepers on UN assignments top number on military personnel killed in line of duty
Thirty-two United Nations (UN) peacekeeping personnel died in deliberate attacks last year, according to the world body’s staff union. For the ninth year in a row, the UN Multi-Dimensional Integrated Stabilisation Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) was the deadliest for peacekeepers with 14 fatalities. The West African mission was followed by...
Eastern African bloc IGAD co-opts media in peace and security agenda in push against conflict
The eight-member regional economic community in the East and Horn of Africa region – IGAD (Inter-Governmental Authority on Development) plans to bring media onside in reporting on peace and security issues in the region. To this end it launched what it calls “a new media network” under the auspices of...
Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga revisits 2022 presidential poll, terms current regime illegal
Kenya’s opposition leader, Raila Odinga, has said his political coalition does not recognise William Ruto as the President of Kenya and declared the new Kenyan government as “illegitimate”. Mr Ruto beat him in last August’s poll, but Mr Odinga – who appeared at Nairobi’s Kamukunji Stadium along with his running...
Why Super Powers are frantically wooing Africa as relations among themselves deteriorate
To call it a new ‘scramble for Africa’, as some like to do, is clearly hyperbolic. Nonetheless, it can’t be denied that the Big Powers are energetically wooing Africa as relations among themselves deteriorate. China’s new Foreign Minister Qin Gang got off to an early start, visiting Ethiopia, Gabon, Angola,...
Vandama Shiva: Public money is used to create infrastructure for greed, not the infrastructure of life, care and of solidarity
As noted by Shiva, the industrial revolution shifted our mindset to one where we thought of nature as dead. The result was ecological destruction and the fragmentation of society. The coming economic reset is basically part of an effort to further manipulate and shift our mental framework toward something wholly...
How philanthropy carves out new colonies Big Pharma, Big Tech exploit in form of investment
India recently eliminated all labour laws and currently, it is in the process of removing or amending the Farmers’ Rights Act, as well as environmental laws to ease access to food. This is what allows for the transfer of wealth to happen, social justice and anti-genetically modified organism (GMO) advocate,...
Big Pharma vs Big Tech: When choice is removed from people’s life, democracies stop, life is threatened
In this interview, social justice and anti-genetically modified organism (GMO) advocate Vandana Shiva, discusses her book, “Oneness vs the 1 Per Cent,” which she co-wrote with her son, in which she argues that the ultra-wealthy elite is responsible for a majority of the environmental, financial and health crises currently facing...
