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How to Steal From Africa, All Perfectly Legally

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 Alex de Waal | May 6, 2016 | African Arguements When UK PM David Cameron opens the Anti-Corruption Summit on 12 May, we should be aware that the greatest fraud perpetrated on the majority of the world’s citizens is all perfectly legal. Africa loses at least $50 billion a year — and probably much, much more than that — perfectly lawfully. About 60% of this loss is … [Read more...] about How to Steal From Africa, All Perfectly Legally

Zanu-PF ‘will not win another election’

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Christopher Mahove |06 May 2016 | he Independent on Saturday Harare - A retired army general in Zimbabwe on Thursday said the ruling Zanu-PF, led by 92-year-old President Robert Mugabe, was unelectable and would never win another plebiscite to govern the country. Retired Brigadier General Agrippa Mutambara, who also served as Zimbabwe ambassador to three different … [Read more...] about Zanu-PF ‘will not win another election’

Coffee conflict is brewing in Ethiopia

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Katherine Dunn  | May 06 2016 | Business Day ADDIS ABABA — In the birthplace of coffee, a conflict is brewing over who gets Ethiopia’s best beans. The government of this East African country wants hard dollars to build infrastructure, and so it has ambitious targets to increase coffee exports, capitalising on world-wide demand for its high-end arabica beans. But … [Read more...] about Coffee conflict is brewing in Ethiopia

The Black Panther May Have His Roots In A 15th Century African Kingdom

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Winona Dimeo-Ediger | May 7, 2016 | NPR If you haven't heard of the Marvel superhero Black Panther, that's going to change very soon. With a reboot of the comic series just released — authored by none other than National Book Award winner Ta-Nehisi Coates — plus the character's on-screen debut in the new blockbuster Captain America: Civil War and the launch of a film … [Read more...] about The Black Panther May Have His Roots In A 15th Century African Kingdom

Zimbabwe Introduces New Currency, Angering Everyone

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Brian Latham and Godfrey Marawanyika | May 6, 2016 | Bloomberg A new currency printed by Zimbabwe’s central bank to ease a cash shortage has drawn scorn from critics attacking it as signaling a return to the hated local dollar, abandoned seven years ago as inflation spiraled to 500 billion percent. The central bank will distribute units with face values ranging from … [Read more...] about Zimbabwe Introduces New Currency, Angering Everyone

The Cost of the Cultural Revolution, Fifty Years Later

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Evan Osnos| May 6, 2016 | The New Yorker In 1979, three years after the end of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, the Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping visited the United States. At a state banquet, he was seated near the actress Shirley MacLaine, who told Deng how impressed she had been on a trip to China some years earlier. She recalled her conversation with a … [Read more...] about The Cost of the Cultural Revolution, Fifty Years Later