News From Africa - Editorial

Africa

The height of greed by Kenyan MPs

26 April 2005 - Zachary Ochieng

The popular paradigm promoted by the Bretton Woods institutions and bilateral donors, is that developing countries can as well forget about economic growth if they fail to contain official corruption.

13 April 2005 - Fred Oluoch

Zimbabwe

Future prospects grim

Now that Mugabe has cheated his way back to another five years in power, Zimbabweans can expect even more suffering than they have hitherto experienced. With no possibility of foreign investment and continued draining away of skills and local investment, unemployment – already at 70% - is likely to reach unprecedented levels.

11 April 2005 - Wilf Mbanga

Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe: Elections, despondency and civil society's responsibility

Zanu PF swept to victory in the March 31 Zimbabwe elections,
consolidating the power of long-term president Robert Mugabe with a
two-thirds majority that will enable him to change the constitution.

8 April 2005 - Patrick Bond And David Moore

Genocide and the history of violent expansionism

The 20th century had been termed the "century of genocides". In 2004
the first of a series of these turned a hundred years. It reminded us
of a history of mass violence directed against specifically defined
population groups, which had to a certain extent its origins and roots
in the violent expansion of European colonialism.

18 March 2005 - Dr. Henning Melber

On Yao Graham's commentary in the Guardian

This is just a brief and painfully unanimated introduction to an opinion piece by Yao Graham in the Guardian.

17 March 2005 - J. M. and Yao Graham

Let's join hands to save Planet Earth

Read Prof Maathai, the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize winner and Kenya's Assistant Minister for Environment and Natural Resources edited version of a speech she gave at the UN Convention on Climate Change Last week in Japan to mark the coming into force of the Kyoto Protocol.

8 March 2005

Africa

Will NEPAD and APRM work?

Three years after its inception, the New Partnership for Africa's Development [NEPAD] remains shrouded in secrecy. It is about time this secrecy was unravelled, lest NEPAD and its component - the African Peer Review Mechanism [APRM] - join other projects in gathering dust from the shelves

23 February 2005 - NewsfromAfrica

Kenya

Kibaki should act decisively on corruption

The National Rainbow Coalition [NARC] - which won the December 2002 transition elections on a reform agenda, including zero tolerance of corruption - is now a major disillusionment to the electorate. Various reports released by the many anti-corruption watch-dogs in the country point to blatant corruption by key ministries. But like the fence sitter that he is, president Mwai Kibaki sees no evil and hears none. If yesterday's mini shuffle was intended to send warning signals to the 'gluttons who have vomited on our shoes' as British High Commisssioner Sir Edward refers to them, then it failed miserably.

15 February 2005

Angola

Diamonds in Angola are forever, for those on the right side of the fence

The Catoca Mining Company in Lunda Sul provinve, turns out more than three million carats of rough diamond a year, accounting for 65 percent of the country's production.The two main shareholders in Catoca Mining, with 32.8 percent apiece of its stocks, are the Angolan ENDIAMA state diamond firm and the Russian company Alrosa.

25 January 2005 - AFP

The implementation of Education For All [EFA] goals

This issue focuses on the factors that impede the implementation of Education For All [EFA] goals. Five years after the Dakar Forum, 35 countries, 22 of them in sub-Saharan Africa, are very far from achieving the four Education for All [EFA] goals, namely universal primary education, adult literacy, gender parity and education quality. This is according to UNESCO's Education for All Global Monitoring Report: The quality Imperative [2005].

17 January 2005

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