The Economist (UK)
Friday, January 3, 2014 - 07:59
Despite desperate peacemaking efforts, the outlook for South Sudan is bleak. THE world’s youngest independent country is criss-crossed with battle lines. Following a bloody rupture in mid-December between President Salva Kiir and his former vice-president, Riek Machar, violence has spread across much of South Sudan.
Friday, January 3, 2014 - 00:00
Two-thirds of voters want Brazil’s next president to make sweeping, if unspecified, policy changes. That suggests the spirit of June is still alive
Friday, January 3, 2014 - 00:00
The introduction of new taxes will hit the poor hardest
Friday, January 3, 2014 - 00:00
About 26% of the region’s people had no access to basic sanitation in 2011. And the largest single group of people in the region is classified as “vulnerable”
Friday, January 3, 2014 - 00:00
The “giant sucking sound” that Ross Perot, a presidential candidate, predicted would be heard as Mexico hoovered up American jobs never materialised; if jobs have moved anywhere in the past two decades, they have gone to China
Friday, December 20, 2013 - 13:24
SALVA KIIR’s sudden appearance on television on December 16th was as disturbing for its form as its content. Gone were the South Sudanese president’s familiar black suit and cowboy hat; instead was a military uniform. Juba, the fledgling state’s capital, had been rocked by fierce fighting the previous day between factions of the army. Mr Kiir (pictured) declared that a coup attempt by his sacked vice-president, Riek Machar, had been foiled. The government, he said, was in control.
Friday, December 20, 2013 - 10:14
Two leaked missives to the president have sorely embarrassed him
Monday, December 16, 2013 - 08:28
Nelson Mandela set a standard that his successors have struggled to match
Wednesday, December 11, 2013 - 00:00
President Barack Obama’s quick but highly public handshake with Raul Castro, the Cuban president (and Fidel’s brother), at Nelson Mandela’s memorial service in Johannesburg on December 10th looked like a sign of rapprochement between America and Cub
Tuesday, December 10, 2013 - 00:00
The peace talks still elicit more scepticism than optimism from the Colombian public. The past few days will not have changed their minds