Construction criticism casts the spotlight on intra-African trade The Guardian | The AU's Chinese-built base is not only a source of controversy but also a symbol of the challenge facing African enterprise | • Interactive: Africa's top trade groups The African Union's Addis Ababa headquarters, scene of the AU summit, are a so...
EU sent 50 MEPs to Congo for eight days at cost of £850,000 The Daily Telegraph The European Parliament spent over £850,000 sending 50 MEPs for an eight-day trip to the Congo in 2010, according to a list of its most expensive foreign delegations. | In July, 13 of the ACP-EU MEPs travelled to the Seychelles for a five-day t...
Philip Hammond defends 'grotesque' military cuts The Daily Telegraph The Defence Secretary says he regrets the "intemperate language" used by a committee of MPs who described the defence cuts process as "grotesque". | 560 315 TelegraphPlayer_9037654 | 10:02AM GMT 25 Jan 2012 | The Commons Defence Committee report roun...
MPs: protecting civil service while troops are sacked is 'grotesque' The Daily Telegraph The forcible sacking of troops while civil servants at the Ministry of Defence have been shielded from redundancies is “grotesque”, an influential group of MPs has concluded. | More than 40 percent of troops were made compulsorily redunda...
Splitting a pension on divorce Independent online Do not rush into a division of retirement savings in a divorce settlement. Judging from recent court cases, you may find that, unless you are very careful, you will not receive what you expected. | The warning comes from Alexander Forbes, the largest...
South Africa's middle class a new target for retailers France24 | AFP - A rainbow nation of shoppers poured through the racks of fashion giant Zara's brand new store, its first in South Africa, where the Spanish chain hopes to tap an increasingly diverse middle class. | With deliveries from Spain twice a week, th...
In 2012, Let's Resolve to Fight Climate Change Together Huffington Post | At the start of the new year, many of us ponder ways to better ourselves and our lives. This year, let's resolve to fight. Fight against a crisis that, if unaddressed, will have catastrophic and irreversible impacts on communities across the globe....
Somalia May Be Kenya's Afghanistan, but Its Army Doesn't Get It All Africa iMaverick (Johannesburg)- Kenya just doesn't seem to get it. Lost in the minutiae of military detail, a Kenyan army colonel claimed they were at the halfway point of their mission to rid Somalia of Al Shabaab. Have they learnt nothing from Afghanistan? Iraq? Vietnam? Weapons don't win wars any more, and until Kenya and its African allies figure out...
Kevin Rudd ready to remake the world The Australian | KEVIN Rudd is re-enacting Shelley's intense play of the high romance period, Prometheus Unbound, in the lead role, naturally, though he could also play Jupiter. Or perhaps both roles, at a pinch. | Since the Foreign Minister was released from his hospital bed he appears not to have slept for a minute nor to have ceased striving to conquer ev...
