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Making sense of ‘developmentspeak’
Macroprudential regulation is supposed to deal with two major issues: the procyclicality of the financial system, and systemic risk and
Human Rights Day 2011, and the rest
It was Human Rights Day on Saturday! Does that mean every other day of the year is a human rights
Nando’s ‘chicken’ out of spoof Last Dictator Standing advert
https://youtu.be/PYnL5oUePM8If you were Nando’s and you were receiving threats from Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s ZANU PF loyalists, would you have
How to Write About Africa
First appearing in 2005 in issue 92, Granta magazine published ‘The View from Africa’ – a collection of memoir and
Current and future costs: COP17
The cost for South Africa of hosting COP 17 will, it is estimated, amount to some 400 million rand (approx.
HIV & AIDS, 30 years on…
Today is World AIDS Day. It has been almost 30 years since HIV and AIDS was first recognised and diagnosed.
Cartoons from the Collective Desazkundea
Here is a selection of six thought provoking cartoons from the Collective Desazkundea’s flickr photostream – they are a group who
Aids-related deaths ‘down 21% from peak’, says UNAIDS
Aids-related deaths are at the lowest level since their 2005 peak, down 21%, figures from UNAIDS suggest. The data also
AllAfrica.com – Gaddafi, Food for Cartoonists
Source: https://allafrica.com/photoessay/Gaddafi-Food-for-Cartoonists/#photo
Global Study on Homicide
A new report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) entitled the Global Study on Homicide, outlines