(January 24, 2007) A Declaration on Debt drafted by participants at this year’s World Social Forum in Nairobi, Kenya, last month calls on governments and lenders in the global North to examine loans they have extended to countries in the South and take responsibility for illegitimate debts.

(January 5, 2006) Corruption deals in Africa are getting bigger. The crooks are getting smarter and doing ever greater damage to Africa’s economies – sucking out resources meant for health, education and clean water.

(January 1, 2006) Andrew Mwenda’s position echoes the concerns of an opinion piece written earlier this year by href=”http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2092-1964947,00.html”, the travel writer and novelist. Theroux, who worked as a Peace Corps teacher in Malawi during the early 1960s, maintains that despite years of foreign aid the once promising country of Malawi is now a failed state.

(December 14, 2005) Famine in Niger is no surprise – desert wastes, locusts and decades of Marxist rule keep it second-to-last on the world poverty list. Famine in the fertile climes of southern and eastern Africa, however, seems more shocking. But there’s a common thread: centralized state rule – incompetent at best – marked by corruption and sustained by aid.

(December 7, 2005) There is “ample evidence of reasoning dementia on both sides of the African reformation spectrum” claims Charles Kwalonue Sunwabe, Jr., in his analysis of reform progress in Africa for The Perspective – a monthly newsmagazine covering Liberian issues.