links for 2006-06-22

Zimbabwe jokes from the Times of London’s new blogger in Africa

Illegal shipping is a huge problem of the coast of West Africa – now nations appear to be fighting back by hiring “environmentalists” armed with light machine guns and RPGs to scare off Chinese fishing trawlers. Always interesting when reality turns into

Kyle Spector on Pantsil’s Israeli flag at the World Cup…

Chinese premier tours seven African countries to great pomp and circumstance. Still hasn’t mastered the art of hugging Ghanaians

This is dispiriting. While ANC is a hugely dominant party in SA, people have made the argument that they’re counterbalanced by an independent judiciary and by strong civil society. But it’s tough to act as a counterbalance when you’re silenced in the medi

Good post from one of the software designers on “Sugar”, the environment being designed on top of Fedora and Python as the operating environment for OLPC

Heh. Ghana’s got its priorities in the right place – make sure we’ve got enough power to watch the matches, which might mean less energy for the gold mines. I’m guessing Nkrumah is rolling in his grave…