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by Dr Claire Spencer | Wednesday 16 May 2012
Many observers were watching the Algerian national assembly elections of 10 May 2012 to see whether they would buck the regional trends of securing...
by Sir Andrew Wood | Friday 4 May 2012
There are those, not least in the West, who hope or even suppose that Vladimir Putin's reincarnation on 7 May as President of Russia will mean a...
by Rob Bailey | Friday 4 May 2012
Significant improvements in the quality and timeliness of famine early warning systems have not been matched by comparable improvements in the...
by Elizabeth Donnelly | Thursday 3 May 2012
Boko Haram's escalation of violent activity across northern Nigeria has been relentless.
by Alex Vines, OBE | Thursday 26 April 2012
The guilty verdict by the judges of the Special Court for Sierra Leone against Liberia's former president Charles Taylor is important for both Africa...
by Elizabeth Wilmshurst, CMG | Thursday 26 April 2012
The unanimous finding by the Special Court for Sierra Leone that Liberia’s former President Charles Taylor is guilty of aiding and abetting and...
by Ahmed Soliman | Tuesday 24 April 2012
Less than a year after South Sudan’s independence, Sudan and South Sudan are on the brink of a return to full-scale war. In the last few weeks there...
by Sir Richard Dalton | Thursday 19 April 2012
Two words stand out from the reporting of the recently concluded Iranian negotiations: constructive and useful. Six further words attributed to a...
by Charu Lata Hogg | Wednesday 18 April 2012
In March, the UN Human Rights Council adopted a resolution calling on Sri Lanka to fulfill its legal obligations toward justice and accountability,...
by Dr Devi Sridhar | Tuesday 17 April 2012
The nomination by the US Government of physician Jim Yong Kim for the World Bank Presidency triggered the usual debate over the fairness of the...
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