Niger’s tragedy is just one of many
Two decades after Bob Geldof’s first fundraising efforts highlighted starvation in the Dark Continent, a vast hunger belt still affects an area from central Africa through to the Indian Ocean
Vote in Portugal’s local council elections
• Andreia Sancho of the Junta de Freguesia de Montenegro PORTUGAL’S LOCAL council elections are almost upon us and if you want to have a say in how your borough
European governments ponder illegal immigration
AFTER YEARS of obfuscation, the British government has admitted there may be as many as 570,000 illegal immigrants in the UK, a figure some experts believe to be an underestimate.
Portuguese dinosaurs give clue to formation of Atlantic
DURING A second phase of excavations at the village of Andrés, near Pombal (central Portugal), palaeontologists have unearthed more dinosaur bones believed to have belonged to the fearsome carnivore “Allosaurus”,
Edinburgh rally on July 2
AS THE leaders of the world’s richest countries gather in Scotland for the G8 Summit, tens of thousands of people will be descending on Edinburgh on July 2, demanding trade
Edinburgh, the final push’
FOLLOWING THE Live8 concerts, just a few days earlier, a further concert is being organised by Midge Ure at Murrayfield in Edinburgh on July 6, coinciding with the first day
Harvey Goldsmith, promoter of Live8, talks to The Resident
Harvey began his career as a promoter in 1966 and, by the end of the ’60s, had created such events as the Crystal Palace Garden Parties and the 14-hour Technicolor
Africa, a continent in need
HOW DID the living tragedy that is Africa come into being? While other parts of the developing world have seen rapid economic growth, Africa is the only continent to have
Brightening their future
Daughter of local resident awarded
World is watching
SCORES OF giant eyeballs floated across Trafalgar Square in London last month, as Stop Aids Campaign, members of Make Poverty History, launched its latest action, calling on the G8 leaders