Emergency Spotlight

Food for tomorrow
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon outlines ways the UN is tackling the global challenge of rising food prices.

Block the vote
Wilf Mbanga, exiled Founder and Editor of The Zimbabwean, sets out how President Robert Mugabe will secure a win in the forthcoming run-off election.

A state of denial
A government's attitude has the biggest impact on the safety and wellbeing of people affected by natural disasters, argues James Darcy, of the Overseas Development Institute.