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On 1-3 November I participated in the International Conference on Non-Violence in Tunis, where activists, academics and journalists from the north and the south of the Mediterranean met to discuss regional strategies to support non-violent activism and democratic transition.  The conference aimed to strengthen solidarity and partnership between non-violent civil […]

Uganda will soon join the league of countries producing oil as the pumping of this natural resource begins in 4 years’ time. With about 1.8 billion untapped barrels of oil, Uganda is expected to join sub-Saharan Africa‘s major oil producers like Nigeria, Angola and Sudan. As such, Ugandans are waiting […]

In the year 2005, Africa’s youth unemployment was at 21 percent, much higher than the world average of 14.4 percent and second only to the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region’s 25.6 percent. Youth unemployment in Africa is a problem of alarming proportions precisely because 65 percent of the […]

Abstract: While the delapidated economies of the so called “first world” strongly beat the European and North American youth, Brazil, by means of an historical inversion, moves forward with safe steps towards the consolidation of a strong neoliberal model, reflecting lower unemployment rates since 2002, and generously opening its frontiers to […]

While we talk about the “new” challenges that the megacities of the world are now facing, the ultra-megacity of Karachi in Pakistan stands helpless in front of problems other of the world’s megacities have learnt to cope with. Karachi – the largest city in Pakistan and the industrial hub of […]