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Justice and empowerment need to be central to our vision of development

WHEN Nelson Mandela, leader of South Africa’s struggle against apartheid, first president of the democratic republic, and distinguished Nobel Peace Prize winner, spoke in Trafalgar Square in 2002, he made it... Full story

The evil of humanitarian wars

Demonstrators protest against military intervention in Syria outside President Barack Obama’s national campaign headquarters on June 26 in Chicago, Illinois. — AFP photo
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