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[from amaah] Angola's Political and Economic Development

Strictly by the numbers... growing at 16 percent annually, now the largest oil producer, high inequality, large foreign investment (China, US) but skewed towards oil and energy.. very little trickle down to assuage civil war wounds. very young population

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HISA 2008 - 17-20 June 2008 - DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA

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[from amaah] Nigeria bulldozes slums to polish capital

The authorities have demolished more than 800,000 homes in slums around Abuja since 2003. "People have to obey the laws otherwise we'll have slums and shanties all over just like Lagos, Brazil, Rio De Janeiro, Mexico ..." Sigh. Plus ca change.

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[from amaah] The Special Court for Sierra Leone - Transcripts of Charles Taylor trial

harrowing in its own way, the transcripts of the ongoing case against Charles Taylor. There's a certain poetry to be found in court transcripts. Very bad men doing very bad things for so long. And the small boy units a decade later. Revisit

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Joomla! Day South Africa

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Open-Source-Africa

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Pod-ready: Podcasting for the developing world - SciDev.Net

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Pod-ready: Podcasting for the developing world - SciDev.Net

article on podcasting and potential indevloping world

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[from amaah] China In Africa

A little breathless reporting on "The Great Chinese Takeout", typical phrases: resource-hungry, blood-curdling, epic primal propulsion, formidably efficient, Malthus, toxic intercontinental corruption, primordial, biological struggle, chaotic and reckless

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[from amaah] Money Laundering And Foreign Corruption: Case Study Involving Riggs Bank (pdf)

The Senate report on Riggs bank and its dealings with Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, Equatorial Guinea's strongman, and Pinochet, Chile's erstwhile dictator. It takes two to do the corruption tango.

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[from amaah] A former rebel faces the Sierra Leonean farmer he maimed

Facing the man who cut off your arm, drowned your child and sent your wife off to be raped and/or killed. Reconciliation in Sierra Leone and Liberia, one village at a time

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[from amaah] 'Craft guns' fuel West Africa crime epidemic

the weapons were traditionally produced for hunting and for farmers to protect livestock but criminal gangs and tribal conflicts have revolutionised demand. Alarmist headline notwithstanding locally-manufactured guns are problematic

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[from amaah] Susu collectors call for formal recognition

informal sector actors and their intersection with banking... Note that "they had put in place software to monitor members so that the public would continue to trust their operations" - also note competition with communication centres and barbers' saloon

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[from amaah] 'At least these mosquitoes don't give you malaria'

on immigrants from French-speaking African countries, who live in Montreal but come to cut brush in northern Quebec's boreal forest in the summer.

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[from amaah] Hey, Here's a Tip: Try Africa.

what happens when the conventional wisdom (aka the Washington Post's view) is to invest in Africa? Big Capital always seeks new frontiers, pity though, the Chinese have a head start

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Pod-ready: Podcasting for the developing world

2008/06 - SciDev.Net

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