Commentaries

Countries in Africa face many enormous challenges. Unresolved conflicts; disputed boundaries; huge and growing divides between rich and poor; despotic dictatorships, corruption; lack of free

“There is no free media in Libya because there are weapons all over the country,” says Emad Gadara, the Programme Manager at the state radio in Zawiyah, a city West of Tripoli. The road to Zawiyah

Libya had what can truly be described as a revolution. Of all the countries caught up in the Arab spring, it was the one where a whole system was being torn down. It was far more than simply the

The Word revolution has been much used by journalists and bloggers when covering the uprisings

Libya is proving to be a critical test of whether the Arab Spring is going to deliver something that can be described as really revolutionary.  Of all the uprisings that have taken place