Africa (older)

Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government held a forum on Darfur tonight, focusing on the critical question, “What can we do?” It featured some of the… Read More »KSG Forum on Darfur

Atanu Day is writing a wickedly funny series on his blog, Deesha, called “You might be a third world country if…” His most recent entry,… Read More »Childhood corruption in India?

Peter Beaumont, writing for The Observer, accuses US officials, especially USAID’s Andrew Natsios, of “‘hyping’ Darfur genocide fears”. Beaumont’s assertion is based on discussions with… Read More »USAID versus the UN – Just How Bad a Tragedy is Darfur?

Passion of the Present is pointing to a new article out in Germany’s Die Welt, which asserts that the government of Sudan, in cooperation with… Read More »Chemical weapons in Darfur?

Tim Cohen, editor at large for Jo’burg’s Business Day, has an excellent op-ed on Solomon Linda and Mbube. Mbube is the song Linda wrote in… Read More »More Mbube

Zimbabwe has sentenced Simon Mann, alleged Equatorial Guinea coup plotter, to seven years in jail for weapons violations. The pilots of the plane that landed… Read More »Zimbabwe: We’ve got both kinds of mercenaries – journalists, and soldiers of fortune