Water Scarcity, Food Security Concerns Prompt Global Land Grab

This week in Rome, the three-day United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization's World Summit on Food Security will focus on farmland investment, paying particular attention to Qatar, South Korea and other big private and public investors including Saudi Arabia and China.

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Just say no to sharia law

"This Saturday's London rally against sharia law and all religious tyrannies should be huge. Millions of people are suffering at the hands of clerical regimes, especially our Muslim brothers and sisters in countries like Saudi Arabia and Iran.

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Nubian fury at 'monkey' lyric of Arab pop star Haifa Wehbe

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Global migration: Where the trains run on time

[Manila, Philippines] The results of a poll recently released by the US-based Gallup Organization say that some 700 million people worldwide would move to another country if they could.

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Africa must think big to thrive

Many African states are too small to continue to exist independently, Sudan-born magnate Mo Ibrahim has told a conference in Tanzania. Mr Ibrahim said the idea that 53 small African countries thought they could compete with China, India, Europe and the US was a "fallacy".

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Will foreign farmers feed Africans?

For centuries, farmers like Berhanu Gudina have eked out a living in Ethiopia's central lowlands, tending tiny plots of maize, wheat or barley amid the vastness of the lush green plains.

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Are Muslims better people?

Two days ago, I read something in the newspapers that really shocked me. It was a statement from Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in which he defended the planned visit of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir to Turkey.

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Zimbabwe child sexual abuse alert

Statistics at a clinic giving free treatment for sexually-abused children in Zimbabwe have revealed an alarming level of sexual abuse.

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