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Bush in Africa - Sunday News Round-Up
“I want to ask Congress to listen to the leaders of Africa, analyze what works, stop the squabbling and get the program reauthorized,” Bush said today at Tanzania’s statehouse in Dar es Salaam, in a press conference with President ...
Bush in Africa
You can throw all the money you want at Africa. We’ve been doing it for 50 years, to no effect. Yes, much of Africa also faces problems with corruption. But corruption’s easier in country’s where poverty makes it hard for the people to ...
Bush in Africa 2
Bush in Africa 2 . . . for some of us, it is a huge embarrassment when the number one war criminal in the world, who should be facing charges in the Hague, showers praises on our leader - Hamza Mustafa Njozi. Bush’s visit to Africa is ...
Residents take walk through Africa’s AIDS epidemic
McALLEN —You walk through a curtain and become Emanuel, a 3-year-old Ugandan boy who has lost his father to the AIDS epidemic.
Africa: Trip #4: The Sahara Desert
When in the Sahara Desert, it is easy to see why. There are no roads, no people, and total silence. Spending a few nights in the Sahara Desert in northern Africa is quite a magical odyssey. Local Berber guides will [...]
Angola10
Travel Angola. Images of Angola in Southern Africa.
South Africa: Paying the price for mining
WONDERFONTEINSPRUIT , 15 February 2008 (IRIN) - One legacy of South Africa’s extensive mineral deposits is the infrastructure and wealth of the country. But another more troubling legacy is emerging as an increasingly urgent problem: ...
President Invokes Relgious Themes In Tour of Africa
DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania — President Bush’s current tour of Africa is widely viewed as a celebration of his historic efforts in battling poverty and disease here. But listen closely to Mr. Bush and his aides, and you might conclude that ...
Traditional Gun Manufacturer's and the Bureaucrats
Togbui Kwaku Ahiam IV makes a case (view video) for supporting local gun manufacturer's. Another case of us throwing the baby out with the bathwater? Reread if you have not already "How Africa Missed its Industrialization"
Bush tours Africa like a Roman emperor
it's sickening to see Bush touring Africa like some Roman emperor or Egyptian god-king, dispensing other people's money in gifts to those who have bent the knee to him. His entourage is larger than Caesar's or pharoah's, but the special ...