For those who for what so ever reason had given United States of America President Barack Obama the benefit of the doubt have to think again especially with regards to his recent pronouncements on Zimbabwe. On Wednesday, March 4, the United States president, in perpetuation of the old George W. Bush regime change drive, decided to extend the almost decade-old sanctions against the country.

"I am continuing for one year the national emergency with respect to the actions and policies of certain members of the Government of Zimbabwe," Obama said in a statement.

Africa is a hugely complex and varied continent. I think that my borough has more African constituents than any other in Britain; my colleagues Ms Harman and Tessa Jowell and I have dealings with huge numbers of people from west Africa—Sierra Leone, Nigeria and Ghana. I pay tribute to those people for the contribution that they make in this country, but also for the way in which, as we have heard, they send remittances back. They become engaged in the issues, and go back and work for democratisation.

Uk government policy on failed assylum seekers from Dafur, Sudan

The Uk "have a legal obligation, as well as, I would argue, a moral duty, to adhere to the principle of non-refoulement. That is to say that we should not return people to countries where they are at risk of imprisonment, torture, death or a grisly combination of all three. It is my submission to the Minister

 Philip Hammond (Shadow Chief Secretary To the Treasury, Treasury; Runnymede & Weybridge, Conservative) was asking the Chancellor of the Exchequer what conditions of eligibility for the child trust fund apply to migrant workers from EU accession states.