By Helen Jane Martin. The group Jama’atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda’awati wal-Jihad – colloquially known as Boko Haram – was founded some ten years ago and has recently caught the attention of the international community due to a proliferation in acts of grotesque and indiscriminate violence that have killed hundreds of Nigerians at a time. Human Rights …
By Ramsha Khan. The 25th of January marked the first anniversary of the spark that lit the Egyptian Revolution, and many took it as an invitation to pause for reflection over the tumultuous events of the last year. This remembrance is especially marked due to the emergence of the newly democratically elected parliament and the swearing in …
By Scott Edwards. On December 3rd last year the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) was officially launched in Caracas. Its broad membership list encompasses all Latin American and Caribbean nations. The inauguration of the new regional organisation was received with much media attention and fanfare across Latin America, but attracted far less …
By Brendan Pastor . Any student of politics or economics can tell you the 2007 financial crisis changed things. Likewise, any student with a sense of history can tell you that the global economy is always evolving. But what we have in Europe, and indeed much of the developed world, is some new demon. Where there was …
