Leaders rallied behind the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) at its 100th birthday bash on Apr 22, adamant that it remains the region’s best shot at economic sovereignty. Details on how to accomplish this, however, remain sketchy.

The popular revolt in Kyrgystan this month should 'serve as a wakeup call to the European Union and the United States, prompting some serious rethinking of their policy priorities in Central Asia,' says a leading area expert.

Two cyclists from the minority Tamil community are shooed away by government soldiers as they approach this northern Sri Lankan city’s only Buddhist temple while President Mahinda Rajapaksa is paying a visit.

'There is no reason why we poor people have to eat badly,' says Ecuadorian farmer Juan Anguisaca. 'It’s not true that organic products have to be expensive. They can be profitable and within the reach of the poor,' Rodrigo Aucay adds.

Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva appears set to gamble his reputation as an urbane cosmopolitan symbol of modern Thailand after shutting the door to a reconciliation offer by anti-government protesters who have occupied the upmarket shopping heartland of Bangkok since Apr. 3.

Allegations that India’s junior foreign minister Shashi Tharoor had swung outsize ‘sweat equity’ for a female friend in a newly floated professional cricket league franchise may have cost him his job, but it may also expose the multi- million dollar India Premium League (IPL) as a massive money-laundering enterprise.

For 10 years, Roselyne Shikami, sold boiled eggs at the bus station just outside the densely wooded Kakamega Forest in western Kenya, near the border with Uganda. Now she is selling butterflies.

Miss, Miss, there are tiny creatures here in the water!' a Grade 7 pupil shouts excitedly, trying to draw attention to his water sample. At first, the liquid looks clear, but upon closer examination, one can make out a tiny aquatic invertebrate.

Raed Abu Hammad, 27, was allegedly kicked to death by Israeli prison wardens on Apr. 16. This while Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails have been on hunger strike since Apr. 7 to press for better treatment.

The legal battle waged by an indigenous community in northern Argentina against the government over a project that flooded half of their territory highlights the fact that legal title to their land is not enough to overcome the marginalisation they have faced for centuries.