Burkina Faso's long-time president, Blaise Compaore, was re-elected for another term with an overwhelming majority in November 2010. What should we make of the recent military uprisings and student protests that have rocked the country?
This early television news broadcast about a strange form of cancer infecting homosexual men offers a fascinating insight into how the public came to understand AIDS, before it was even called as such.
UNAIDS just released a 30 year stock taking of the global fight against HIV/AIDS. The report, AIDS at 30: Nations at the Crossroads, is voluminous, but contains some interesting factual nuggets about recent progress against the disease.
Earlier this week, Gallup released the findings of a major global survey of 126 countries from 2007 to 2010, asking "do you approve or disapprove of the job performance of the leadership of the United Nations?" The results broke down along regional lines. Here's why.
The SG is in Rome today, where he met with Berlusconi and Foreign Minister Frattini, discussing Libya, Somalia, Lebanon, the Middle East/North Africa and nuclear safety, among other issues.
The International Atomic Energy Agency just completed a fact finding mission into the Japanese nuclear crisis at the Fukushima plant--and one fact they find is that the Tsunami hazard was under-estimated.
At the rate it is going, Yemen may soon descend into a Somalia-like death spiral of violence. If you want to peer into the Yemen's future, all you need to do is glance across the Gulf of Aden.