In the run-up to the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen this December, African countries are boycotting climate change conferences. They allege that ‘the world’s rich nations must do more to cut emissions.’ This is just one of the hurdles being encountered by the controversial climate deal negotiations whose final agreements hope to be signed [...]

Their reputation of being man-eating ferocious animals precedes them most of the time, making them tourist-drawing museum pieces. However, the famed Kenyan duo of man-eating lions may not really be that human-hungry. The infamous Tsavo lions credited with 135 kills ate just 35 humans, making them not as ravenous as legend creates them to be.
The [...]

Developing countries such as those in Africa serve as a showcase of how ‘cost-effective medical practices deployed in poor nations deliver good results.’ The strategies hope to be replicated in rich countries such as the US. One example is
“Project Connect,” a program used in AIDS clinics in Zambia, now being exercised in Alabama.
‘In the Alabama [...]

A new type of hedge fund was invented in the mid-1990s. It was eponymously called ‘vulture fund.’ These funds are used to ‘buy debts racked up years ago by the poorest countries on earth, almost always when they were run by kleptocratic dictators, before most of the current population was born.’ They buy the debt [...]

Bill Gates reveals that the debate and conflict over GM foods are threatening the efforts of The Gates Foundation in its attempt to end world hunger. ‘An “ideological wedge” threatens his global effort to help farmers.’
Over the recent years, The Gates Foundation has been ‘helping alleviate hunger and poverty by giving small farmers the tools [...]

Emerging countries may end up losing the chance to take advantage of information technology due to lack of infrastructure for broadband, said an agency of the United Nations (UN).  The lack of access to the Internet deprives these countries of the possibility of developing an industry of outsourced services, said the trade and development agency [...]

After slamming the ‘evil’ West, Robert Mugabe seems to have opened the gates to ‘benevolent’ East for trade and investment in Zimbabwe. Of course Robert Mugabe had no option but to take help of China to retain power and survive the international sanctions against Zimbabwe. China was more than eager to step on the rich [...]

There are quite a few conflict zones in the world today where everyday civilians are being caught in the crossfire, their villages are devastated due to bombing and homes are reduced to rubble. There is no normalcy and hence no regular source of livelihood and income. People live in rehabilitation and refugee camps. More than [...]

There has been much controversy about Barack Obama being awarded Nobel peace Prize for 2009. It is indeed intriguing that President of United States of America who is sending more troops and is engaging in a war in Afghanistan should be declared as an ambassador of global peace.
Interestingly Obama even maintained a tactical silence when [...]

Pope Benedict is of the opinion that political colonialism was long over in Africa. The new form of colonialism is that of material exports to the continent by the developed world. Calling it a “toxic spiritual rubbish”, the Pope fears of materialism colonialism. In this context at least, the political colonialism isn’t over yet.
A synod [...]