Sun, Mar 23, 2008
Max Keiser looks at the financial crisis and asks whether Central Bank remedies are penalizing workers and savers. Samah El Shahat also interviews several guests on the financial crisis.
Wed, Jan 27, 2010
In April 1994, long-standing tensions between Hutus and Tutsis, the two main ethnic groups in the African state of Rwanda, exploded when the plane of Juvenal Habyarimana, the Hutu president, was shot down. A Hutu militia - along with thousands of ordinary Hutus - massacred more than 800,000 Tutsis. But when the exiled Tutsi-led Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) returned to the country as many as two million Hutus, fearing reprisals, fled across the border to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) Sixteen years on, many of those Hutus want to return home as part of a reconciliation and repatriation programme sponsored by the UN and the Rwandan government. But what sort of welcome awaits them? Sorious Samura followed some refugees as they returned to Rwanda.
Mon, Feb 21, 2011
Sorious Samura takes us to the frontline of the global war against the crippling disease polio, where hopes for a final eradication of the scourge are being undermined by an explosive and deadly new outbreak in Congo-Brazzaville. Polio is on the verge of eradication. Since 1988, years of unprecedented success by the Global Polio Eradication Initiative has seen the number of cases around the world decrease by 99 per, but the goal to guarantee the cessation of all 're-established poliovirus transmissions by the end of 2010' has failed. The final one per cent is proving hard to beat. Strains of the virus linger in parts of the developing world, and localised epidemics can still strike unexpectedly. Ten years ago, Congo-Brazzaville thought it had seen the last of polio but since last October, 220 people have died, and a further 368 people are suffering from paralysis. As a regional emergency response operation battles to contain the crisis, Sorious journeys to its epicentre, the coastal city of Pointe-Noire to meet the most recent victims. What will it take to stamp out polio entirely? With the high risk of further spread, Sorious highlights the desperate need to find a solution if dreams of a polio-free world are to be realised.