Month: May 2008

When I initially heard about the People’s National Convention’s evidently expedient electoral alliance with the rump-Convention People’s Party, I laughed so hard that I almost fell off my chair. I, however, couldn’t stop torrential tears […]

Talk is cheap, as the saying goes; and this is precisely the kind of otiose and regressive maelstrom that most of postcolonial Africa continues to suffer: Cheap talk, woefully unmatched by progressive and constructive deeds. […]

Baghdad, 22 May, 2008— Iraq is suffering from water shortages that could lead to widespread drought as a result of the water policies of neighbouring countries and an unusually dry winter, the Iraqi Water Resources […]

Ruring‘u, 23 May, 2008— Samuel Ngumo Kamau cannot dispel the images of burning houses and Kenyans killing each other from his mind – a key factor in his decision not to return to his home […]

Conakry, 23 May, 2008— Guinea’s powerful union leaders said on 22 May that by recently sacking the prime minister, President Lansana Conté had violated the centrepiece of an agreement he signed in 2007 which brought […]

Johannesburg, 22 May, 2008— The governments of Mozambique and Zimbabwe have begun the “voluntary repatriation” of their citizens, in the wake of ongoing xenophobic violence in South Africa that police say has claimed 42 lives, […]

Bangkok, 22 May, 2008— The first helicopters contracted by the UN World Food Programme (WFP), offering a vital humanitarian lifeline to scores of cyclone survivors in the Ayeyarwady Delta, arrived in Yangon, the former capital, […]

Washington, 22 May, 2008— Africans should “take the initiative” to develop Africa’s science and technology sector in cooperation with and with assistance from the United States and other developed countries in order to stimulate a […]