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Analysis
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Thursday, 2 May, 2013
By Jo Biddle — US Secretary of State John Kerry is moving cautiously and smartly towards fresh Middle East peace talks, but deep distrust between all sides means success is far from guaranteed, analysts say. Wresting an important concession from Arab League nations on Monday that land swaps could be
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Thursday, 2 May, 2013
By Frederic Bichon — A YEAR after Francois Hollande's election, the French president finds himself trapped in Europe between a powerful but unpopular German Chancellor Angela Merkel and his own weakness at home. Germany's growing economic dominance as France struggles to recover, coupled with an ide
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Thursday, 2 May, 2013
By Joe Brock — IN an unwanted daily routine lasting 17 years, Phillip Cleatus sits in the dark doorway of his shoe-making shop in Nigeria's northern city of Kaduna, waiting for the lights to come back on. President Goodluck Jonathan is trying to persuade Cleatus and some 170 million other Nigerians
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Thursday, 2 May, 2013
By John Kemp — EAGLE Ford in Texas is one of the fastest-growing shale oil and gas plays in the United States, but it is also in one of the driest parts of the country. Following a severe drought in 2011, concerns are mounting that oil and gas extraction is competing with irrigation for scarce water
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Thursday, 2 May, 2013
By Mitra Taj — PERU'S mining minister is winning a crucial cabinet battle by swaying President Ollanta Humala to water down a law that gives indigenous groups more say over new mines and oil projects — and a deputy minister will likely resign in protest. According to half a dozen people with direct
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Thursday, 2 May, 2013
By Bate Felix — FAILURE by Guinea's politicians to reach agreement for a long-delayed legislative poll is stirring up tribal violence, jeopardising economic gains and raising fears that the military could once again step in. The election, first scheduled for 2011, is meant to complete a transition t
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Tuesday, 30 April, 2013
IT is Aung San Suu Kyi's mantra for embedding democratic reform, but for many who endured Myanmar's authoritarian and deeply corrupt former junta the "rule of law" remains a distant hope.
Flashpoint issues such as land grabbing have intensified fears that the country's anaemic legal structures are
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Tuesday, 30 April, 2013
AN Indian Parliament deadlocked yet again over corruption scandals threatens Finance Minister P Chidambaram's ambitious reform agenda, dealing a harsh dose of political reality on the heels of his North American roadshow to sell the India story.
Two long-stalled reforms — one to lift the foreign ow
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Tuesday, 30 April, 2013
ATTACKS by the Pakistani Taliban are forcing the main party in the country's northwest, an important battleground in the upcoming general election, to campaign in the shadows. The Awami National Party (ANP) ruled Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province for the past five years, but it is now bearing the brunt of
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Tuesday, 30 April, 2013
FIVE years after it was reduced to ashes in an arson attack, the newly rebuilt Namdaemun gate in South Korea was unveiled yesterday after a painstaking reconstruction costing millions of dollars.
The cultural jewel in central Seoul will reopen to the public on Saturday, following one of the longest
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