Event: The Standard newspaper reported on May 30th 2013 that angry MPs have vowed to slash President Uhuru's salary and substantially reduce budgetary allocations to plunge independent commissions into a cash crisis as retaliation for opposition to their higher salaries. A group of lawmakers who have been leading calls for higher salaries with the tacit backing of a majority of Parliament warned they could hit back as early as Tuesday,…

If anyone would like to know what World War III looks like they have to look no further than Syria. If one has doubt that the war in Syria does qualify to be called a world war then they should scrutinise a couple of definitions for the term world war. According to the online free dictionary "a war that involves most of the principal nations of the world" and Macmillan…

Event: Pakistan's elections on 11th May 2013 were widely covered by local as well as foreign media. So far no official data has been released regarding the percentage of votes cast, but it is believed that around 55 to 60 percent people voted in this election. Political parties and media ran an almost month long campaign to encourage people to vote. They created fear in the people that if they…

On the 13th of May, the Bangladeshi army announced that it had ended its search for survivors of the Rana Plaza garments factory collapse in Dhaka three weeks ago that tragically claimed the loss of more than 1100 lives, most of them women. The heartbreaking tragedy once again highlighted the exploitation of women by the garment and other multinational corporations in the country as the building housed five garment factories…