By Uchenna Ekwo Thinking of the events, processes, and outcome of the shutdown of the United States government for 16 days, I cannot but view it from the prism of…

By Lawrence Freeman The UN Children's Fund, (UNICEF) reports that of the 6.9 million children under five years old who died in 2011, almost half were from Sub-Saharan countries and…

By Osmond Ekwueme When Muslim extremists otherwise called “terrorists” perpetrate mass murder of groups of Muslim children because they are receiving western education in Nigeria, then our humanity has come…

By Lawrence Freeman Led by the Ethiopian Prime Minister, the Ugandan President, and the Kenyan Parliament, a growing chorus of voices and actions are being taken against the International Criminal…