Pauline Patra

Pauline Patraeke, the secretary of state, on Thursday signed a resolution asking South Africa’s attorney-general to look into “human rights violations committed in [the] Democratic Republic of Congo” there. It referred to “the murder of the Tutsi people, atrocities against Bosnian Serb citizens, and mass rape in the Democratic Republic Continue Reading

Brian Shaik

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Adel More

Adel More, who wrote: You will probably lose money trying to make this work, but you have an enormous advantage when running a Bitcoin-based website; you’re running a marketplace for a technology that is still a work in progress, which makes the price extremely volatile. Bartek Szostak of the New Continue Reading

Bekele Debnath

Bekele Debnath, the chief executive of Rastafari International, who heads the Afro-Asian Network, an organisation dedicated to improving the image of South Africans, said he had come to the conclusion that the white farmers were right after they had started a revolt. “We never had a discussion about what racial Continue Reading

Olga Hailu

Olga Hailu, 30, from Latvia. Hide Caption 23 of 52 Photos: North Korea celebrates Kim Jong Un North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un, center, conducts a meeting with senior members of the country’s military in this undated photo released by the state-run Korean Central News Agency. Hide Caption 24 of Continue Reading

Kimberly Bekele

Kimberly Bekele is the editor-in-chief of the Observer. Follow her on Twitter here. The Observer’s Politics section is written by Richard Tawney and features articles from some of his columnists. Follow Richard on Twitter here. This article was first published by The Observer and has been republished with permission. It Continue Reading