Adapting to Climate Change: The Maasai Could Help
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
As myriad of UN bureaucrats continue to fantasize about the best way to fight climate change, allied agents of the UN, such as Oxfam believe its research into East Africa's minority ethnic Maasai group, reveals a timeless tradition of adapting to harsher climatic regimes.
Maasai's crop production history could well be a blue print for solving world hunger. But then wouldn't we be better off learning to adapt even with technology rather than fall for alarmist and distractive theories from bureaucrats who simply create excuses to have some work to do?
The next conference of the United Nation's Framework Convention on Climate Change is underway in Accra. Expect nothing but empty hot air with grandiose lunches at the expense of the global tax payer.
Kenya's Police Up Their Corrupt Game
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
That the Police in Kenya are the country's most corrupt institution is surely an understatement. The Police have gone hi-tech, using mobile phones to exact bribes from their victims. The Kenyan Police seem to be living up to their vision of being a "world-class Police Service…."
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Senegal Cries Foul For Fugitive Chadian Terrorist
Monday, August 18, 2008
As former Chadian leader Hissene Habre respectfully got justice he denied his own country men and women, Senegal, the country shamefully holding the fugitive leader has protested what it calls double jeopardy in law for Habre, should the Chadian ruling hold. Quite annoyingly, Senegal wants US$ 43 million to put Habre on trial when it has just passed a law that could try Habre some 18 years after shielding him. Perhaps the US $43 million could be used to compensate victims of Habre's torture should it be considered at all.
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Al-Qaeda's Logic on Mauritanian Coup
Monday, August 18, 2008
Al-Qaeda could possibly be fighting on behalf of deposed regimes in Africa, especially where its interests are at variance with the United States and the French in particular. Born out of Algeria, its main base of terror in Africa, Al-Qaeda has a long haboured hatred for anything French as the latter was responsible in erecting a puppet leadership in Algeria.
So, it is not surprising that Al-Qaeda members in Northern Africa are calling on the people of Mauritania to fight against the leaders of last fortnight's coup that toppled the democratic elected government that has been in power since elections were held in 2007. That call to arms also includes France, Israel and United States, the main backers of the coup in Mauritania
The Rwandan "Miracle": Economy to Grow By 8.5 %
Monday, August 18, 2008
Amidst the adversity of global food crisis and unstable oil prices, Rwanda, a country coming in from the cold after its traumatizing genocide, seems to have found her economic bearings as she continues to outshine many loud-mouth African countries such as ours that continue to tout economic achievements rooted in deep philanthropy rather than sensible economic management.
Kirsty Coventry: The Curse of 'Good White'?
Monday, August 18, 2008
Rejoice Ngwenya, Harare, Zimbabwe
By the time you read this opinion piece, the Chinese 'Bird's Nest' may long have been deserted; the guns of Olympians silent and she will be back to her more solid cradle. Perhaps, just perhaps, Robert Mugabe will have conferred swimming sensation Kirsty Coventry with yet another Honour of the Stone Temple award for in his own words, "keeping the Zimbabwean flag high in the face of rabid Western adversity."
Zimbabwe Better Under Ian Smith than Under Mugabe
Sunday, August 17, 2008
Rejoice Ngwenya, AfricanLiberty.org's columnist speaks to AllAfrica.com on Zimbabwe and says, Zimbabwe was better under Ian Smith than under Robert Mugabe.
