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27 Dec 09

Bloggers are Africa's new rebels - Chicago Tribune

"The U.S. should take note. As it prepares to engage with Africa more intensely than at any time since the Cold War, in part by the Pentagon’s establishment of a new Africa Command headquarters to coordinate military and security interests, the U.S. will be competing on an increasingly flat information playing field."

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  • Dagem, as he chose to be called, was a new type of African revolutionary: a blogger.

  • The U.S. should take note. As it prepares to engage with Africa more intensely than at any time since the Cold War, in part by the Pentagon’s establishment of a new Africa Command headquarters to coordinate military and security interests, the U.S. will be competing on an increasingly flat information playing field.
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26 Dec 09

allAfrica.com: Nigeria: Nepad and Challenges of Charting Development Strategies

  • Adedeji further disclosed that it is now widely acknowledged that the current global turbulence accentuated by the financial and banking turmoil which is reminiscent of the Great Depression of the 1920s and the 1930s, including the recent upheaval in Nigeria 's banking sector, "is the failure of corporate governance.."
  • Adedeji further disclosed that it is now widely acknowledged that the current global turbulence accentuated by the financial and banking turmoil which is reminiscent of the Great Depression of the 1920s and the 1930s, including the recent upheaval in Nigeria 's banking sector, "is the failure of corporate governance.."
25 Dec 09

China, Africa boost legal ties: S. African lawyer_English_Xinhua

  • The lawyers have much work to do because while China has one legal system, the 53 nations which make up Africa each have their own systems. Most are based on either the British legal system, with elements of Roman/Dutch law, or the French legal system.

        There is also a strong legacy of Portuguese influence in former colonies. China's civil law system is based on traditional customs and practices, with Soviet and German influence.

  • The lawyers have much work to do because while China has one legal system, the 53 nations which make up Africa each have their own systems. Most are based on either the British legal system, with elements of Roman/Dutch law, or the French legal system.

        There is also a strong legacy of Portuguese influence in former colonies. China's civil law system is based on traditional customs and practices, with Soviet and German influence.

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24 Nov 09

BOLIVIA: The Credibility of Campaign Promises - IPS ipsnews.net

An incomplete but still useful counter to the O'Grady Wall Street Journal blather.

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22 Nov 09

AFP: Ahmadinejad heads to nuclear-backers Brazil, Venezuela

"Lula said he believed US-led criticism of Iran was reminiscent of Washington's fallacious justification for the war in Iraq.

"Even today, those leaders in favour of the war in Iraq are unable to explain why they invaded if there were no chemical weapons. Well, I am seeing the same sort of things starting to happen over Iran," he said."

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  • Lula said he believed US-led criticism of Iran was reminiscent of Washington's fallacious justification for the war in Iraq.

    "Even today, those leaders in favour of the war in Iraq are unable to explain why they invaded if there were no chemical weapons. Well, I am seeing the same sort of things starting to happen over Iran," he said.

Memo From Africa - France Stirs Ill Will as It Consorts With Region’s Autocrats - NYTimes.com

  • The antigovernment demonstrators think France still pulls the strings, and while French officials deny this, their actions often suggest otherwise. In Gabon, where the election of an autocrat’s son dashed hopes for ending 40 years of rule under the Bongo family, Mr. Sarkozy’s man in Africa, Alain Joyandet, showed up at Ali Bongo’s pomp-filled inauguration, telling reporters that Mr. Bongo “must be given time.”
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