Bosco Ntaganda is the spider in the web of violence and looting in North Kivu, East Congo. The Terminator kidnaps people, smuggles raw materials into Rwanda and orders forests to be felled in Virunga Park. The International Court of Justice may be after him for crimes against humanity, but Ntaganda simply lives in Goma, at a stone’s throw from the ...

Children know what racism is. Harassment, jokes, negative statements about heritage, colour and religion belong to the life of many primary school pupils. Through individual conversations and focus groups, MO* examines this phenomenon. Their results are both startling and challenging.

Evidence keeps rising that our agriculture and food system is out of balance. On its turn, Europe has understood a different and better plan is needed. The making of the EU's new Common Agricultural Policy is in full swing. The question remains whether it will pose a solution to the real challenges of the agricultural sector today.

The economic woes of European nations are at the center of political debates and street battles. Would anybody mind to listen to a voice that has been disregarded and discredited, but might hold some important insights to guide Europe out of its current imbroglio? Kenneth Weare, an American moral theologian, highlights the ideas of the European Cat ...

In the turbulent Horn of Africa, Somaliland is an oasis of relative quiet and order. Twenty years ago Somaliland declared itself independent. Since, however, no country has recognized this tiny state in the northeast of Somalia.

The population of Russia is declining fast. In the Far East, only six million Russians are left. At the other side of the border, hundreds of millions of Chinese are packed together in the northern provinces of the People’s Republic. Is the Chinese dragon a threat for the Russian bear?

Guy Standing, professor Economic Security at the university of Bath, UK, and founding member of the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN) published the bestselling book The Precariat. The New Dangerous Class. His criticism of the way European governements are responding to the financial crisis is scathing.

Serious global discussions have begun in the lead-up to the Millennium Development Goal (MDGs) deadline of 2015. Governments and international agencies are asking what has been achieved, what still needs to be done and how best to proceed after the deadline. Fabienne Richard, researcher at the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp thinks t ...

Three years after the debts volcano on Wall Street erupted, we can see more clearly what happened: a crisis of neoliberal globalization.

Exactly one year ago, anger drove the young Tunisian Mohamed Bouazizi to set himself alight. The flames engulfed many Arab countries. Bouazizi died, but the Arab Spring was born. One year on, is there something to celebrate? MO* put the question to Egyptian writer Alaa Al-Aswani, Syrian human rights activist Haytham Manaa, and Algerian top dipl ...

We stumble from one crisis to the next and politicians fail to deliver thorough answers. The impasse frustrates the basis, although it contains a treasure of positive energy as well. Rob Hopkins, founder of the transition movement, has succeeded in mobilising this hidden energy. Recently Hopkins was in Brussels for a meeting with the Belgian t ...

In July the new social liberal president of Peru, Ollanta Humala appointed Susana Baca as culture minister. A surprise, as the singer, who with the help of David Byrne built an international career and won a Grammy award in 2002, belongs to the Afro-Peruvian minority and has no political experience whatsoever. But she does have a clear opinion: ...