Hotel Rwanda's messageis thattoo many officials of developed countries--and of the United Nations--still act as though Africans were dirt.

Despite outward appearances of crisis, the prospects for sustained peace and security in the Great Lakes region of Africa are better today than at any time since the mid-1980s.

Review of The Battle for Zimbabwe, by Geoff Hill,andThe Shackled Continent: Power, Corruption, and African Lives, by Robert Guest.

Review of The Shackled Continent by Robert Guest.

In November, to the world's astonishment, 600,000 tired and hungry Hutus emerged from the Zairian countryside and trekked back to Rwanda after a two-year exile. The migration aborted the deployment of a 15,000-strong international force about to embark for Rwanda to rescue these very refugees. Yet this deployment, though...

Record of recent decades shows that limited interventions are often successful in reducing bloodshed and ending the worst excesses of tyranny.

A review of the Black Book of Saddam Hussein edited by Chris Kutschera.

Few seem willing to admit that the UN's most profound failure has been in the area of global security, the very reason for which it was brought into existence.