There is a feisty old woman in every village. In Maparanhanga, a remote village in Mozambique, reached by a several-hour-trip through potholes held together by scraps...

Every year we celebrate independence day with a lot of hype and ceremony, we stand up for the national anthem nd sing in unison jana gna mana adhinayaka jaya he...We...

I will say why not? At least I have no answer to this. I wonder why despite being the oldest profession & an indispensable one prostitution does not command...

Kenya has once again topped the list of the most corrupt countries in the region. Transparency international’s bribery index says Kenya has the most incidents of...

“Even a dog in any European Union country enjoys better living conditions than we do here,” complained Danush Ademi, a Kosovar MP representing the Ashkali...

I have been writing about Zimbabwe/Mugabe for almost six years now – and I would hate to know how many hours I have spent in research, or how many words I have...

There really should a comedy sitcom dedicating to the lives of Persian Gulf princes. There is endless material for laughter. “Those Gulf Royals” would...

The poverty-stricken nation of Niger is hitting back after a UN report branded it the world’s worst place to live. Niger’s Institute of Statistics plans to...

Reporting from Toribio, Colombia - Craving adventure and escape from his broken home, Jerson enlisted with leftist guerrillas when he was in his early teens. He saw it...

President Museveni’s brother General Caleb Akwandwaho, popularly known as Salim Saleh recently declared his wealth to the inspector of government. In his briefing...

Kenya, one of Africa’s most popular tourist destinations, is being targeted by Western paedophiles who are exploiting the country’s poverty and lax law enforcement...

Scores of women, many of them married and with children, gathered outside the office of Chaudhry Iftikhar, a local trader, in the old quarters of the port city’s...

ARE YOU ARGUMENTATIVE? The Indian Prime minister addressed top government officials a month ago and told them that the system was ridden with corruption. I did not...

Denise de Oliveira lost her job as a janitor in June when she had to stay home to care for her 13-year-old son, who had pneumonia. The 45-year-old single mother of four...

Each day, when I read through dozens of articles on the internet in an attempt to filter out those that I wish to highlight on my main page, “The Bearded...

It is a year since the world reverberated after the fall of the once mighty Lehman Brothers and the cataclysmic events that followed. There is a lot of soul searching...

It is official now. Two hundred and seventy-eight districts out of approximately 604 districts in the country are reeling under drought and agriculture growth and in...

Villagers march more than 300 kilometers from northwest Cambodia to ask the prime minister to save their homes from developers. Some 400 families in the country’s...

When India got freedom from the British rule the people of India really had a big dream to form their own government and achieve an all round development in the...

“They are cheerful-looking and photogenic, but close to all have a very sad story,” said Budi Soehardi, founder of the West Timor orphanage. “Some of...