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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.

international donors, the World Bank and most African governments for decades have largely ignored the needs of farmers, despite the fact that agriculture is the continent's largest economic sector and biggest employer. Not Ghana though!

"Leona Helmsley left $12 million to her dog," he said. "If there were no estate tax, the dog would have gotten $22 million.". Long live the estate tax

Malawi has broken with an orthodoxy long advocated by Western donor nations: The impoverished country has gone back to subsidizing poor farmers.The subsidies have been a raging success.

The United Nations Population Fund report... lots on the trends towards urban migration.

A little-known virus is causing a big fuss in Micronesia.The Zika virus, spread by mosquitoes, produces an itchy rash, pinkeye, joint pain and fever. Since its discovery 60 years ago in an ill monkey in the Zika forest in Uganda, it has caused rare cases

Germany exports more to Russia and the former Soviet satellites than it does to the US. Germany's economy is striving as exports have increased in recent years; unemployment is dropping rapidly, falling below double-digits for first time since 2002; natio