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Nigera’s “War on Terror” and the Fuel Subsidy Ends.

No Quick Remedy for Africa’s Internet Gap | IDN-InDepthNews | Analysis That Matters.

Prior to the 2010 South Africa World Cup, submarine fibre optic cabling was laid to improve the speed and reliability of broadband. Despite this, Internet World Statistics reports that only 11.4 percent of Africans have internet access, far below the global average of 30.2 percent.

African leaders fail pitch for 2010 Mo Ibrahim award.

The Mo Ibrahim Foundation has the second in two years resolved not to award the prestigious African Leadership Award.  The award that is normally awarded to former African leaders with outstanding governance records will once again not be awarded by the foundation.  The Mo Ibrahim Foundation said the Prize Committee, after deliberations over the weekend could not select any winner for the 2010 Mo Ibrahim Prize

Pambazuka – ‘Africa has lost a Great Daughter’.

Wangari Maathai was an amazing person. I first met her in Kampala during the CODESRIA Symposium on Academic Freedom. She arrived a day after the symposium. I was informed of her presence and her need for accommodation. I went looking for her and found her in the lobby of the hotel with a small sack of her belongings she had taken with her. When I made the obvious point that [she was] too late for the symposium, she replied, with that great smile that was her trade mark: ‘I know, but I made it’…