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An interesting facet of the Sino-African project is the issue of standards diplomacy in the context of the evolving relationship between booming China and not-so-booming Africa.
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On June 10, Samuel Atere-Roberts participated as project manager in the commissioning of the solar powered computer center at the Prince of Wales School in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
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Many have missed out on the economic boom of the past decade that has seen robust growth rates but which has been largely driven by huge capital investments that have created few employment opportunities.
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The detention of presidential contender Tsvangirai by police for nearly 12 hours on Wednesday is another instance of the orchestrated harassment of opposition supporters and other organizations.
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Many left-leaning ideologues have responded to the spectacles of mass arson ongoing in the "townships" of Gauteng and elsewhere in South Africa with characteristic ambiguity.
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I saw a willing president who, according to his presidential and public affairs minister, wants to "bring the State House closer to the people and the people closer to State House."
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China is indeed a dragon on the uplift; any clumsiness could have devastating consequences in those regions of the world most susceptible to its influence, such as Africa.
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Since the Congo government and various armed groups in the chronically unstable North Kivu province signed a ceasefire in January, the truce has been repeatedly violated.
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As H.I.V. becomes an increasingly manageable chronic disease, the question becomes how to help people living with the virus enjoy a relatively healthy old age.
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A recount of 23 disputed constituencies revealed no major changes and has served to confirm the status quo that President Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF has lost control of parliament.
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Julius Awafong hopes that giving larger votes to poor, working- and middle-class people through vote sizing will ease the misery they are suffering as a result of corruption.
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President Mugabe has done what many Zimbabweans feared he would do—tinker with the election results and refuse to accept the reality that his political time was up.
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Six hundred Liberian refugee women and children are currently detained in Ghana and face imminent deportation for holding a peaceful protest in the Buduburam refugee settlement.
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The political crisis on the Indian Ocean archipelago has been simmering since June 2007, when African Union-monitored polls were held on all three islands—Anjouan, Grand Comore, and Mohéli.
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The ruling party's winning margins have been thinning, so have been the number of its supporters. But this has not shocked Mugabe into delivering the economic and political change craved by his countrymen.
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