When on the chilly, snow-dappled day of December 10, 1948, the UN General Assembly ratified the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) by a rousing 48-nation vote, there must have been a collective sigh of relief heaved across the globe. It was the aftermath of World War II, which had...
SIR, as a student of Medicine, I should not have anything to bother about except of course, the work assigned to me as homework by my Anatomy lecturer. But the Boko Haram is wasting more lives than could ever be done by the diseases I hope to treat. My knowledge...
In Jos, conflict seems to recur in ever-narrowing cycles: deadly riots rocked the city in 2001, 2008 and not even two months ago – in January 2010. The current conflict is said to have started in reprisal for the destruction that occurred in January — there have been reports of...