The Daily IIJ

Government high officials, experts and many other major actors of the battle against HIV/AIDS, coming from all over the world, met on November 21st, 2011 in Berlin to discuss on news strategies about HIV prevention. At the occasion, Reverend Johannes-Petrus Mokgethi-Heath declared that laws discriminate infected people more than they protect them. By Minakpon Stanislas [...]

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‘Your country has been placed among the highly corrupt countries in the world because it doesn’t contribute (to TI’s budget)’. This joking statement addressed by an African journalist to his Afghan colleague after a conference on Transparency International (TI) in Berlin illustrates perfectly the suspicion prejudice many people may have about TI. This non-governmental organization [...]

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With the last federal parliamentary elections held in Berlin on September 18th, 2011, the Pirate Party unexpectedly enters the Berlin parliament, winning about 9% of the votes. The election of pirates to Berlin parliament will certainly impact the political environment in Berlin since most of them are young people who are claiming more changes in [...]

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Les dernières publications des Nations-Unies sur la population mondiale affichent 7milliards d’êtres humains sur la terre à la date du 31octobre 2011 et placent le Nigéria à la première place en Afrique avec 162 millions d’habitants. Ce voisin du Bénin dont la population atteindra 433 millions d’habitants en 2050 représente-il une chance pour le Bénin [...]

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