Derrick Hudson is a professor at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado “I am essentially exploring, at the moment, how South Sudan and the Republic of Sudan are going to divide the debt that they accumulated when they were one entity.” Hudson said. The country would have qualified for debt relief under the Heavily…
Intended Audience: Students of African politics ***Open book study: 1 hour. Please see questions at end of the page. You are welcome to supplement your reading with material outside of the text book. What recently happened in Niger and what are the consequences: The reverberations of a “soft coup” which occurred in the uranium rich nation of…
Photo: Nobelpeaceprize.org Perceptions of the U.S; Nobel Peace Prize Award Any causes and effects? In Journalism, correlations and linkages between issues and outcomes are always a point of contention. This also applies to theories and concepts relating to mass communications and their related translation into issues and policy agendas. In the lead-up to the November 2008…
Who is Going to Crash the Summit? As the 64th U.N General Assembly meeting winds down, international attention has shifted from New York to Pittsburg in Pennsylvania. So, the talk of “crashing the party” by protest groups and movements gains another level of attention. The talk about nuclear disarmament, global climate change, and the world…
Photos:One.org The ONE organization, a grassroots campaign organization against extreme poverty and preventable diseases, is asking leaders of the G20 nations, now meeting in Pittsburg, to hold the next G20 summit in Africa. Today, the organization sent out an email asking everyone to take action and pressure these leaders to hold the next G20 meeting…
Africa in the mix: The G20, Africa and the U.N Photos: MCC, the U.N and G20.org This week, leaders from around the world began gathering in New York for the annual United Nations General Assembly meeting. This gathering, now routine for the U.N., has been taking place since 1945 when the U.N was founded. It…
Rocky Mountain News to publish final edition on Friday, according to The Denver Post. As if we have not already had enough of this trend, the announcement Thursday that the Rocky Mountain News will publish its final edition Friday did not come as a complete shock. At least, some of us thought the Rocky would find…
U.S. President Barack Obama has called it “the worst financial crisis in our life time.” You can call anything you like; the crisis of a generation, the trickle-down effects of the sub-prime mortgage lending mess, or whatever, but the global financial crisis is hitting not only the United States but all countries around the world. It may…
At a meeting of the 12th ordinary session of the assembly of the heads of state and governments of the African Union (AU) on February 2, representatives elected Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi as the new AU chair. Gaddafi’s role as chair would be to help set and implement the AU’s agenda during the period for which…
In yet another setback to bringing lasting peace to Zimbabwe, Reuters News Service reported Monday that there is a deadlock in negotiations between the ruling ZANU PF party and the opposition Movement for Democratic Change(MDC) on the terms of implementation of the September 2008 power-sharing agreement. Both sides are currently at a regional summit to…
