The most Zambians from the Diaspora who attended a Diaspora Forum Elections 2011 at the Houses of Parliament Committee Room 18, here in London complained about lack of justice, good governance and democracy as Zambia goes for 2011 general elections.

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House of Lords debates, 29 June 2011, 3:29 pm Lord Clinton-Davis (Labour) Lord Howell of Guildford (Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office; Conservative) My Lords, the United Kingdom is playing a key role in counterpiracy operations at sea, and

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Gordon Brown spoke at the Royal African Society Business Breakfast with the drive of a man with much to say about Africa, the World and continuing inequalities within it. He delivered an impassioned barnstormer of a speech which belied the

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In recent commentary, some in the advocacy community have suggested that the United States actively move to provide the new Republic of South Sudan with anti-aircraft weapons system technology, including “medium-range surface-to-air missile systems.” There is some irony in anti-conflict advocates

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By Myles Wickstead One of the remarkable side-effects of the focus on Africa and international development in the lead up to the Gleneagles Summit in 2005 was the commitment of all the major UK political parties to reach 0.7% of

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Comparing the United States and South Africa By Prof. Norma Kriger (Independent scholar and consultant) A quarter of Zimbabwe’s population now lives in other southern African countries, the UK, the US, or elsewhere.  To avoid being deported to crisis-ridden Zimbabwe,

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By Jens Pedersen This post is Part I of a longer article Making Sense of a Thorny Separation – Part II can be read here: Internal  Dynamics of the South In the Sudanese capital of Khartoum, the political environment seems

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Event Summary Jide Macaulay is an Author, preacher and the founding Pastor of House of Rainbow Fellowship, a Christian Fellowship with groups in the UK, Nigeria and Ghana. Its vision is to assist sexual minorities on the journey to reconcile

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Jun 22, 2011 (110622) (Reposted from sources cited below) Editor’s Note “The remainder of [Sudan] remains saddled with the ‘Sudan Problem’, where power, resources and development continue to be overly concentrated in the centre, at the expense of and to

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Ivory Coast – House of Lords, Written answers and statements, 20 June 2011 Lord Chidgey (Liberal Democrat) To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether, in the light of continuing instability in the Ivory Coast and the continuing occupation of police stations

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