Send this article to Twitter!So, everyone’s talking about this Sudanese businessman who’s offered to pay African leader’s $5 million dollars a year over ten years if they …. “deliver security, health, education and economic development to their constituents”. I was listening to the radio on the way to work this morning and the host...
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Send this article to Twitter!From The NYT: A small cadre of Western-educated technocrats had followed the I.M.F.’s reform programs to the letter — cutting spending,privatizing state-owned businesses, lowering inflation and pushing infrastructure. It was classic, conservative economic policies, said Safwat Fanous, chairman of the political science department at the University of Khartoum. And it...
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Send this article to Twitter!From the Economist: Mr Aweys, a fervent nationalist, was decorated for bravery as a Somali army colonel in the 1977 war (the war against Ethiopia). He wants an Islamic emirate of Somalia, taking in the mainly Somali parts of Ethiopia and Kenya. Is the Kenyan army prepared for the possibility...
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Send this article to Twitter!From the BBC: Kenya has reported its first case of polio in 22 years, discovered in a three-year-old Somali girl at a refugee camp near the border with Somalia. Polio Share on Facebook
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Send this article to Twitter!I was watching Bono last night on CNN. In terms of his philosophy on Africa, he and Anderson Cooper could be intellectual twins. Bono now has a campaign to try and raise money for Bill Clinton’s Global AIDS initiative. In theory, it’s a noble concept. However, as we all know,...
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Send this article to Twitter!The Economist has an article on the growing problem in Somalia and it’s implications for tourism in Kenya. I’ve been accused of being a xenophobe, but the instability in Somalia is eventually going to spill over into Kenya. If you look at most of the recent acts of terrorism that...
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Send this article to Twitter!From the NYT: “They call her the “Black Hawk Down” lady. And in the corner of her dirt yard, beneath rags drying in the sun and next to a bowl of filthy wash water, she keeps a chunk of history that most Americans would probably like to forget. It is...
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Send this article to Twitter!I had a piece some time back on Kobi Alexander, the former CEO of Comverse who is accused of illegally backdating stock options and rewarding himself millions in the process. Anyway, the U.S. Attorney in New York issued an indictment against him and he was supposed to show up for...
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Send this article to Twitter!From the WP: “An influx of Chinese traders — bringing with them inexpensive Asian-made products…. have moved into rebuilt shops in Kamwala, where the rent is too steep for some Zambian entrepreneurs. At the same time, many Zambians have benefited from the availability of cheaper Chinese goods — a source...
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