September 10 - World Suicide Prevention Day:

Stigma: A barrier to suicide prevention

The feeling of disappointment is a part of human nature, it is said. It is weakness of facing up to it or overcoming it that becomes the underlying factor of a person’s character.

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Preserve marriage to save civilisation

Most of us depend for a very good deal of our happiness or misery on circumstances beyond human control. A right to happiness does not make much more sense than a right to be six feet tall or to have a millionaire for your father or to get good weather whenever you want to have a picnic.

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In age of globalisation :

Development, a new global deal

In the framework of development-led globalisation, Africa is not just a continent whose extreme poverty the international community must focus on but a diverse set of countries, each with their own human and natural resources, which can be deployed toward their own development.

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