Inte bara är marknadsreformer skulden till matbristen i Nordkorea, det är det även i Niger. Enligt Washington Post i alla fall: It [the famine] is the result not only of food shortages but a host of other problems, including vendor profiteering, a government policy shift toward a free market, and a decline in the traditional [...]
Archive for the ‘Afrika’ Category
Hur tänkte du nu?
Posted in Afrika, Ekonomi, Konstigt, Politik & Samhälle on August 12, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
Scary
Posted in Afrika, Politik & Samhälle on July 24, 2005 | 1 Comment »
NY Times: His new 25-bedroom palace is clad in midnight-blue Chinese roof tiles. His air force trains on Chinese jets. His subjects wear Chinese shoes, ride Chinese buses and, lately, zip around the country in Chinese propjets. He has even urged his countrymen to learn Mandarin and nurture a taste for Chinese cuisine. That President [...]
Mer Live8
Posted in Afrika, Ekonomi, Politik & Samhälle on July 3, 2005 | 2 Comments »
Simon Jenkins i The Times: Geldof disagrees. He is a big-time interventionist. He claims legitimacy not by democratic mandate but by the dubious franchise of rock concert attendances. He tells his audiences that they do not need to give money or think. They can feel better just by chanting a mantra like monks. Awareness is [...]
Ouch…
Posted in Afrika, Ekonomi, Politik & Samhälle on July 3, 2005 | 1 Comment »
Två saker från African Bullets & Honey: Word on the street is that Gordon Brown, the British Chancellor of the Exchequer will march with protestors in the ‘Long Walk to Justice’. So who and what precisely will they be marching against? Poverty? This is simply an exercise in white, Western megalomania. Now that the age [...]
Något att se upp för
Posted in Afrika, Ekonomi, Politik & Samhälle on June 29, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
Anledning 63453 till att tänka efter både en och två gånger innan man stödjer Live 8, Make Poverty History och liknande. Bistånd i fel händer dödar: The millions donated to Ethiopia in 1985 thanks to Live Aid were supposed to go towards relieving a natural disaster. In reality, donors became participants in a civil war. [...]
Pfekazvakanaka
Posted in Afrika, Mänskliga rättigheter, Politik & Samhälle on June 27, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
Zimbabwe tar ytterligare ett steg närmare helvetet, det är riktigt nära nu. This is Zimbabwe: A new wave of repression has hit Bulawayo’s western suburbs and is spreading rapidly. It is called after its Shona name “pfekazvakanaka”, meaning “dress well”. I first heard about it this morning from a youth from Mpopoma, let’s call him [...]
