tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36044802010-04-09T15:15:58.561-07:00News from AfricaNews and events of note on the African continentLorenzonoreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3604480.post-34318786700651129082010-04-09T15:15:00.001-07:002010-04-09T15:15:51.397-07:00This blog has moved This blog is now located at http://africa-lozo.blogspot.com/. You will be automatically redirected in 30 seconds, or you may click here. For feed subscribers, please update your feed subscriptions to http://africa-lozo.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default. Lorenzonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3604480.post-46211242092661150882010-02-26T15:18:00.001-08:002010-04-09T12:32:49.136-07:00THIS PAGE IS NOW AN ARCHIVE ONLYAs of March 2010, Google is no longer supporting FTP publishing of it's Blogger blogs. Therefore I will be consolidating all of my blogs into a single front page format that I will be experimenting with and changing from time to time until I find something I like.Lorenzonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3604480.post-1120683761821313902005-07-06T14:02:00.000-07:002005-07-06T14:02:41.826-07:00Protest supporting Africa ends in chaos(Jeremy Lovell, Reuters, July 6, 2005)Riot police clashed with protesters close to the Gleneagles Hotel in Scotland on Wednesday after a demonstration against Group of Eight (G8) leaders ended in chaos. . . . Around 100 officers in full riot gear mounted a baton charge to drive protesters away from a security fence surrounding the hotel where US President Lorenzonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3604480.post-1093924208564682332004-08-30T20:50:00.000-07:002004-08-30T20:50:08.563-07:00Africa takes tough stand on coups (Christian Science Monitor, August 31, 2004) The cast list of the alleged coup plot in Equatorial Guinea reads as if straight out of a cold-war thriller: An aging mercenary determined to organize his last big job, the corrupt leader of a tiny oil-rich nation, and the playboy son of the former leader of a world power. . . . The titillating story, which first came Lorenzonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3604480.post-1078263185771676932004-03-02T13:33:00.000-08:002004-03-02T13:36:03.403-08:00Myths blunt Africa’s fight against AIDS (Steve Swindells, Reuters, 02 Dec 2003) [COMMENT: This story was called to my attention when I received an email from a friend in Cape Town. Here is what he said: You may have already heard that there is a myth in South Africa that having sex with a virgin will cure AIDS. The younger the virgin, the more potent the cure. This has led to an epidemic of rapesLorenzonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3604480.post-1075921745811907812004-02-04T11:09:00.000-08:002004-02-04T11:11:26.436-08:00Thriving on Death (Mabvuto Zulu, Africana.com, February 1, 2004) To pass through any market or street in any Zambian town reveals an unusual industry that is thriving when many others in the country are collapsing. . . . "Business is good and in the next few years, it is going to be even better," he says as he attends to his next clients. . . . Bupe sells coffins, and his is just one of the Lorenzonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3604480.post-2000869182003-04-02T11:25:00.000-08:002003-04-02T11:25:56.570-08:00Left behind to starve (George Monbiot, The Guardian, March 18, 2003) As the US prepares to spend some $12 Billion a month on bombing the Iraqis, it has so far offered only $65 million to provide them with food, water, sanitation, shelter and treatment for the injuries they are likely to receive. A confidential UN contingency plan for Iraq, which was leaked in January, suggests that the war could Lorenzonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3604480.post-905989702003-03-12T11:07:00.000-08:002003-03-12T11:07:27.730-08:00The Truth About Zimbabwe Democracy, as understood by the "free" world, no longer exists in Zimbabwe. Huge swathes of the countryside have been turned into "no go" areas by the ruling party's thugs who are now known as "war veterans". This means that no news, other than Government spin doctoring, comes forth. When the ugly truth finally does come out, the world will be horrified. The truth is thatLorenzonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3604480.post-901628342003-01-09T07:54:00.000-08:002003-01-09T07:54:31.046-08:00Congo, Rwanda sign peace pact (nzoom.com, 9 January 2003) The presidents of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo have signed a peace agreement aimed at ending a devastating war in which up to two million people have died in the heart of Africa. . . . Rwanda's Paul Kagame pledged to withdraw thousands of troops from eastern Congo, while Congo's Joseph Kabila undertook to help disarm RwandanLorenzonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3604480.post-854680022002-09-19T07:58:00.000-07:002002-09-19T07:58:58.890-07:00Sahara desert frontiers turn green bbc.co.uk -- Satellite pictures of northern Africa show that areas lost to the Sahara desert during decades of drought are turning green again. Analysis of images show deserts retreating in a broad band stretching from Mauritania to Eritrea, according to research in British magazine New Scientist. The driving force behind the retreat of the deserts is Westnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3604480.post-854245842002-09-07T09:13:00.000-07:002002-09-07T09:13:02.876-07:00Congo, Uganda Sign Peace Deal LUANDA (Reuters) - The leaders of Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo have signed a deal to help bring peace to the former Zaire, where four years of civil war have left around two million dead. Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni and his Congolese counterpart Joseph Kabila signed the accord late on Friday in the presidential palace in Angola's capital Luanda,Westnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3604480.post-853651862002-08-20T17:41:00.000-07:002002-08-20T17:41:50.836-07:00Zambia Finally Rejects Transgenic Food Aid LUSAKA, Zambia, August 19, 2002 (ENS) -- The Zambian government has made a decision to reject a donation of transgenic maize (corn) from the United States after a protracted national debate over safety of the food. Announcing the decision on a national television broadcast late Friday, chief government spokesman Newstead Zimba said government will not Westnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3604480.post-853491862002-08-15T13:28:00.000-07:002002-08-15T13:28:15.320-07:00Botswana Bushman fights for survival bbc.co.uk -- In Botswana the Bushmen, or San, face destruction as a separate ethnic group. President Festus Mogae once described them as 'Stone Age creatures' for whom there was no place in the modern world, and the Bostwana Government is chasing them off their traditional hunting-lands. Diamonds, the curse of modern Africa, have been discovered there. But Westnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3604480.post-852734912002-07-22T20:51:00.000-07:002002-07-22T20:52:00.000-07:00Congo and Rwanda Agree on Peace Deal PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA (Reuters) - Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo struck a deal on Monday aimed at ending four years of war in the Congo, officials said. Delegates from the two countries have been meeting in the South African capital Pretoria since Thursday to try to resolve the conflict which has killed an estimated two million people since 1998Westnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3604480.post-852211972002-07-04T09:21:00.000-07:002002-07-04T09:21:29.903-07:00Africa Needs Green Growth to Fight Pollution-UN KAMPALA (Reuters) -- Africans are likely to suffer increasing pollution, ill-health and loss of farmland unless the continent adopts "clean" technologies and the world does more to fight global warming, the United Nations said on Thursday. The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), releasing what it called the most authoritative assessment of Westnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3604480.post-852195912002-07-03T15:41:00.000-07:002002-07-03T15:42:09.000-07:00Faith: Africa grapples with Romans 13 WASHINGTON, July 3 (UPI) -- As evangelical Christianity is becoming the dominant force in sub-Saharan Africa, the key New Testament passage dealing with the relationship between church and state has taken on paramount importance. At last weekend's international conference titled, "The Bible and the Ballot Box: Evangelical Faith and Third-World Democracy," noWestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3604480.post-852171862002-07-02T20:13:00.000-07:002002-07-02T20:13:27.283-07:00G-8 Summit Sidelines Africa (Ross Crockford, Alternet.org, June 27, 2002) As both summit delegates and activists point out, African nations face problems of epidemic proportions. One-half of the continent's population of 680 million people live on an income of less than $1 per day. More than 12 million have died in wars in the past decade. More than 25 million have AIDS, and 2.4 million died of Lorenzonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3604480.post-852110562002-06-30T16:39:00.000-07:002002-06-30T16:39:23.590-07:00Control of South African Internet (Hacktivismo, June 20, 2002) mixter writes "This one comes straight from slashdot..." In an end-run around the South African government's plans to seize control of the .za domain , administrator Mike Lawrie took pre-emptive action and moved the primary .za zone file offshore. Revealing their naivete, parliamentary committee chairman Nkenke Kekana accused him of Lorenzonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3604480.post-852079082002-06-28T17:20:00.000-07:002002-06-28T17:20:27.496-07:00Africa is forced to take the blame for the devastation inflicted on it by the rich world (George Monbiot, The Guardian, June 25, 2002) It is traditional, when empire celebrates, that its vassal states come to pay tribute and beg for deliverance. This time, the African leaders who will be admitted to the summit on Thursday are prepared to suffer the final humiliation by blaming themselves for theLorenzonoreply@blogger.com