Jacob Zuma Threatens to Bring South Africa to its Knees If He Is Jailed
The former president’s supporters threaten to resort to violence again in a deeply divided country, putting its democracy on the line and its economy in peril.
The former president’s supporters threaten to resort to violence again in a deeply divided country, putting its democracy on the line and its economy in peril.
East Africa might soon become the new battleground of the economic and security confrontation between India and China.
As Africa faces a future of increased population and climate change, the current challenges of food waste, production and hunger will only become more prominent.
Africa’s history is rich and complex and could — if we could hear its voice — teach us valuable things that our own system of knowledge in the West refuses to take into account.
Even as a new class system emerges in a land riddled with crime, corruption and poverty, devolution offers a ray of hope.
Africa, the continent to watch, keeps “emerging” to take its place in a yet to be defined new world order. Its problems with democracy reflect more general problems affecting the entire globe.
Across Africa, politics has been turned into a do-or-die trial, accomplished in a vacuum of democracy amidst rampant human rights violations.
In this edition of The Interview, Fair Observer talks to Ranieri Sabatucci, the EU ambassador to the African Union.
