FOLLOWING the disputed elections in Kenya, in which approximately 1,000 people were killed and hundreds of thousands were displaced from their homes and livelihoods, there is still no functioning Kenyan government.

IT is rightly hoped that the African Union will be a champion of good governance and human rights in Africa.

IT is ludicrous to argue that the problems of the developing world can be explained in terms of “an orgy of consumerism” in the developed world (Fergus Finlay, Irish Examiner, April 12).