Things aren’t going so well in Guinea. The long-time president, Lansana Conté, passed away last Monday. While he had held the country pretty stable, quite a feat considering the instability of some of its neighboring countries, he also didn’t allow a country rich in natural resources achieve it’s full potential; corruption was rampant and not… Read More BBC: Guinea’s musicians echo decline
I once heard someone say: “Ah, ‘X-mas’: X marks the spot where Christ was taking out of Christmas”. How that (sadly) rings true. His Holiness Jesus Christ has taken an unfortunate back seat to the decorations, the presents and the old man in a red suit climbing down chimneys (seriously, doesn’t anyone else see how… Read More X marks the spot
HARARE, Zimbabwe (CNN) — Zimbabwean police are in contempt of court for failing to follow a judge’s order to release jailed members of the opposition, attorneys for the activists said. Police, however, maintain the 32 people who oppose President Robert Mugabe will remain in custody pending the outcome of a government appeal to the Supreme… Read More CNN: Jailed Zimbabwe activists caught in legal battle
Zimbabwe’s children ‘wasting away’ – aid group HARARE, Zimbabwe (CNN) — Some of Zimbabwe’s children are “wasting away” as political turmoil and economic crisis have caused a severe food shortage, according to a report from Save the Children. The number of acute child malnutrition cases has risen by almost two-thirds in the past year, the… Read More Zimbabwe: Wasting an entire generation?
For those of you still following what is going on with the Big Three, be it in the States or in Canada, here is a very interesting post by a fellow WordPress blogger that is showing parts of both sides of the story. Take a look, and do let us know what you think. Indecent… Read More The Big Three: an interesting opinion
Sometimes it seems like celebrities each live in their own bubble, which makes it all the more fun when the give each other a nod of acknowledgment, just like the one Fall Out Boy gave to none other than Britney Spears… [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECtFHwVqSDg&]
In a McWorld, it is often heart-warming to see cultural traditions survive. However, some of these traditions are not only quaint; quite the contrary, they can be quite annoying, especially for the uninitiated. As a person living in a city becoming more and more multicultural by the second, I felt it was my duty to… Read More The Art of Taarof
Just like Barack Obama being names Times’ Person of the Year, I don’t think it comes as a surprise that Tina Fey has been named AP Entertainer of the Year, does it? If it does and you live in North America… Where have you been hiding? Tina Fey is the entertainer of the year? You… Read More Tina Fey voted AP Entertainer of the Year – WHAT a surprise
Sometimes a picture is worth a million words – and here is a picture definitely worth checking out, of a gentleman selling Streetwise in Chicago. Enjoy!
From: WASH news Africa [Nigel Chigudu lost] five siblings in five hours to the cholera epidemic that has been sweeping across Zimbabwe. “They started vomiting and had serious diarrhoea,” recalls Nigel, 15. “The youngest, Gamu, was 14 months old, and Lameck was 12 years old. It was in the middle of the night; I could… Read More Zimbabwe: Nigel’s Story – the tragedy of country’s cholera outbreak