Speaking at a conference in Ethiopia, United Nations investment analyst stated the obvious — investors don’t want to put their money into Africa when they see genocide in Sudan, civil war in Ivory Coast, and the sort of endemic corruption in countries like Zimbabwe.
According to the BBC, Africa as a whole only sees about $15 […]
In May of this year, Zimbabwe’s corrupt president Robert Mugabe made a grand show of refusing food aid. He told Sky News TV,
Why foist this food [aid] upon us? We don’t want to be choked, we have enough.
But in early July, Zimbabwe was making backdoor appeals tot he World Bank for millions in aid, especially […]
About 2,000 protesters turned out to highlight the lack of democracy in Swaziland in August. Swaziland was being visited at the time by heads of state as part of an international conference on sustainable development.
Swaziland made the protesters’ point for them by using what the BBC described as “heavily armed paramilitary police and soldiers [who] […]
The Daily Telegraph reports on a rare instance of Zimbabwe strongman Robert Mugabe actually telling the truth. Here’s how Mugabe chose to describe himself at the recent state funeral of one of his cabinet ministers,
I am still the Hitler of the time. This Hitler has only one objective, justice for his own people, sovereignty for […]
The World Food Program reports that food shortages are coming to an end in Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, and Zambia, but such problems continue to worsen in Zimbabwe.
James Morris, head of the World Food Program, told The New York Times,
A serious humanitarian disaster has been averted. Food has been put in place over the last several […]
The United Nations didn’t make any friends in releasing a report accusing highly placed political and military officials in the Congo, Rwanda, Uganda and Zimbabwe of setting up criminal cartels to exploit mineral and gem resources in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Rwanda, Uganda and Zimbabwe withdrew their armed forces from the DR Congo as […]
UNAIDS released a report in July claiming that the AIDS epidemic is still in its initial phases, and that the total deaths to AIDS in the developing world will grow to horrific heights over the next few decades.
In the 45 countries where HIV prevalence is the highest, UNAIDS estimates that as many as 68 million […]
A study published this month in The Lancet should settle once and for all whether or not vaccination of disease is a worthwhile goal to achieve in the developing world. There has been some skepticism over whether or not poor nations possessed the infrastructure to carry out large scale vaccination programs.
The study looked at World […]
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization warned in February that parts of southern Africa are at serious risk of famine over the next few months that could threaten as many as four million people.
The famine threat is greatest in Malawi, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe, of course, has seen its crop production cut in half […]
The European Union finally took official action against Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe after Mugabe ejected a Swedish diplomat who was heading a mission to observe Zimbabwe’s upcoming election. The EU’s sanctions, however, will have no real effect on Mugabe.
Mugabe is now banned from traveling to European Union nations, any assets he has in the EU will […]