Linus Atarah
The G8 and Africa: A new hope or another false dawn?
The G8 and Africa: A new hope or another false dawn?
The British Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, has unveiled a so-called "Marshall Plan for Africa", a high profile campaign to rid Africa of poverty, that will be put before leaders at the gathering of the G8 in July this year. But a meeting of finance ministers of the G7 countries over the weekend seemed to have pulled the rug under the feet of Brown and his Prime Minister Tony Blair.
Mental Illness Emerges as Unseen Killer
Mental Illness Emerges as Unseen Killer
About 58,000 people kill themselves every year in the EU. This compares with around 50,700 deaths a year currently in road accidents and 5,350 in murder or homicide. "Europe is at the forefront of global mental illness," said Benedetto Saraceno, director of mental health and substance abuse at WHO. "However, the army to face this is rather poor."