French President Francois Hollande today announced that France will be sending more troops to Mali, reinforcing the 750-strong force of French soldiers already in the country. The situation in the West African state has been deteriorating since early 2012, when Islamist insurgents took over in the north. Mali’s government …

On 1 July 2013, Croatia will officially become the 28th member state of the European Union. But did Croatia make the right choice when it signed up to the club? Or should it have waited until the final shape of the EU was a bit clearer? Who knows …

Today, Matthew Nimetz, the UN mediator for talks between Greece and “the country that dare not speak its name” (i.e. either the “former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia” or the “Republic of Macedonia”, depending on your position), began another round of …

Last year, we took part in European Development Days 2012 and posted a series of debates about Europe’s role in international development (as well as putting some of your comments to Andris Piebalgs, European Commissioner for Development, in a video interview). During these debates, several commenters …

On Thursday, the UN General Assembly voted by a large majority for Palestine to be given the status of a “non-member observer state”. Palestine will now join Vatican City (the only UN observer state until now) in being able to …

Voters in the US head to the polls today, as the presidential election campaign enters its final 24 hours. Polling shows the candidates are still very much au coude à coude, with neither the Republican candidate, Mitt Romney, nor the Democrat incumbent, Barack Obama, …

In the run up to World Food Day on October 16 new UN figures showed there were 132 million fewer hungry people around the world than there were 20 years ago. Despite that, almost 870 million people still get through …