Sunday night, an aircraft carrying 64 suspected mercenaries and “military cargo” was seized in Harare, Zimbabwe and impounded. Reuters and the AP are both covering… Read More »South African mercenaries in Zimbabwe, enroute to Equatorial Guinea?
Anyone looking at a map might wonder why President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, fleeing political violence in Haiti, would choose to flee to the Central African Republic.… Read More »Why C.A.R.?
I got ludicriously useful feedback from blog readers regarding the two posts I made in preparation for the talk Joi and I gave at O’Reilly… Read More »Making Room for the Third World in the Second Superpower
Christian Science Monitor is reporting development of a weed that helps detect land mines. A Danish company, Aresa Biodetection, has developed a strain of Thales… Read More »Planting weeds to eliminate mines
Jim Moore writes yesterday about outsourcing in the IT industry, an issue that seems likely to be a major part of the debate over economic… Read More »Outsourcing and “Benedict Arnold”
Databank, run by the very brilliant Ken Ofori-Atta, is reporting that Ghana’s stock exchange had the best returns of any equity market, worldwide, in 2003.… Read More »Ghana – best performing stock exchange, 2003