This was a surprise, Robert Muagbe and Morgan Tsvangirai taking the first tentative steps in working out a power sharing agreement. If they can negotiate in good faith then maybe just maybe Zimbabwe and its people can recover from its long suffering.
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THE latest news on AIDS treatment came this week in a report published by the WHO, UNAIDS and UNICEF. By the end of 2007 some 3m people were receiving anti-AIDS drugs.
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Historically India and Africa have had strong cultural and economic ties; Indians were sent for decades by the British to work as indentured servants in its African colonies. More recently Indian businessmen have set their eyes on expanding into western markets leaving China with a huge opportunity to develop trade and energy deals. It looks [...]
If Hillary doesn’t knock this primary out the park it could really be game over for her.
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Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe is showing no signs of stepping down from the election he probably lost. Now his party loyalists are on a warpath of intimidation against his ZANU-PF party.
A Zimbawean crawling across barbed wire to sneak into South Africa. My only question is why is she crawling under barbed wire with her baby [...]
There has been a lot of features in the media about how cellphone can empower the world’s poor. How so? Many countries in Africa and Asia don’t have the infrastructure to reliably generate and distribute power much less run copper/fiber optic cable to support telephone and high speed internet.
Mobile services open up new opportunities [...]
Countries in the developing world are faces with a conundrum; industiralize to boost economic growth while grapling with issues such as pollutions and its environmental and health consequences. Tata Power a subsidiary of the Tata Group has just won approval on a 4megawatt power plant in Gujarat province, one of the poorest places in India.
India [...]
I’ve always been fascinated by the continent of my forefathers, but been repulsed by the perpetual cycle of poverty, violence and disease that it suffers from. I picked up a copy of this book to get a deeper and broader picture of the entire continent from its days under colonial subjugation to its boom as [...]
Zimbabwe’s economic colapse would be beyond comical if it weren’t for the widespread misery caused by its longtime leader Robert Mugabe. Elections were held March 29th and it looks like as Mr. Mugabe and his ruling ZANU-PF Party may be gone from power after 27 years in power.
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There’s an insightful article from my favorite news source, The Economist.
THERE is no exaggerating China’s hunger for commodities. The country accounts for about a fifth of the world’s population, yet it gobbles up more than half of the world’s pork, half of its cement, a third of its steel and over a quarter of its [...]
