links for 2006-04-11
Motorboat carrying 150 sinks in Ghana; 110 feared dead, police say Kwasi Kpodo for the AP – 40 saved, 110 feared dead in Volta ferry… Read More »links for 2006-04-11
Motorboat carrying 150 sinks in Ghana; 110 feared dead, police say Kwasi Kpodo for the AP – 40 saved, 110 feared dead in Volta ferry… Read More »links for 2006-04-11
A few months ago, it looked as if Somalia might be on the verge of recovery. Somalia’s parliament in exile finally met in Somalia, rather… Read More »Guns, terror and money transfer – Somalia
Terrible news from Ghana, where a ferry has sunk in Lake Volta on Saturday afternoon. Ghana’s man-made lake – centerpiece of Nkrumah’s strategy to create… Read More »Tragic news from Lake Volta
BBC NEWS | World | Africa | Zimbabweans have ‘shortest lives’ Zimbabwe’s average lifespan drops dramatically over the past twenty years, in part because of… Read More »links for 2006-04-09
Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Life seeps back into the Aral Sea Another good piece on the recovery of the northern Aral Sea (tags:… Read More »links for 2006-04-08
I’m giving a talk (far too early) tomorrow morning at my friend Derrick Ashong’s Sweet Mother Tour conference, on new technology and the digital divide… Read More »A chance to speak up – notes for my talk at the Sweet Mother conference