News In recent days, many media have once again focussed attention on the worsening plight of Muslims in the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp on the outskirts of Damascus, which has been besieged by the forces of the merciless Syrian regime for the last six months who have prevented food, medicines, or fuel from reaching its residents. The consequence has been severe malnutrition and starvation amongst its people, resulting in many…

News: "Now, at the end of 2013, Syria stands as a tale of mismatched commitments, and an example of America's inability to steer events from a distance"--The Wall Street Journal. Comment: In the early days of the Syrian rebellion, US intelligence agencies made a prediction: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's days were numbered, an assessment repeated publicly by President Barack Obama and top U.S. intelligence officials. However, at the end of…

South Sudan, a new nation born out of American endeavours to control the country's vast oil supply and provide ‘Israel' with access to the African continent to meet its oil and security needs is quickly descending into the abyss of chaos. Washington is struggling to prevent a full-scale civil war. The usual culprits are two Western agents - President Salva Kiir and his former vice-president Riek Machar - at loggerheads…

News: The Star Newspaper on 1st January 2014 reported that high cost of living, insecurity and an increasingly bad political situation has made majority of Kenyans less optimistic as they prepare to welcome in the new year. According to a Synovate poll released on 31st December 2013, 70% of Kenyans are worried about the cost of living as being one of their greatest concerns. Another 49% cite insecurity as their…