Emily Bridger

Africa Emily Bridger

Balancing Budgets on the Backs of the Poor: Government Cuts Funds to CIDA

[captionpix align=”right” theme=”elegant” width=”320″ imgsrc=”http://storage.canoe.ca/v1/dynamic_resize/sws_path/suns-prod-images/1297256355812_ORIGINAL.jpg?quality=80&size=650x&stmp=1335304610241″ captiontext=” Minister of International Cooperation, Bev Oda.”] The Conservative Government has announced it will cut $319-million from the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)’s budget over the next three years, while redirecting funds from low-income countries in Africa to middle-income countries in Latin America. Meanwhile, the Minister for International Cooperation, Bev Read More…

Africa Emily Bridger

All Talk and No Game: Is South Africa Ready to be a Continental Superpower?

In 1994, Nelson Mandela announced that South African foreign policy would forever be guided by the international pursuit of human rights and true democracy. Yet eighteen years later, the country appears to have lost sight of not only Mandela’s guidelines, but of any coherent global strategy at all. In a time when the international community Read More…