I’m off for a boys’ ski weekend in Utah and so will not be back to posting until Tuesday or Wednesday. I’m leaving you with some links and brief commentary to start your weekend off right!
Fans of Bafana Bafana probably should not get their hopes up that Benni McCarthy is going to step forward and save the team’s hopes for the World Cup. Perhaps South Africa’s favorite all-time footballer is suffering from knee knack and may well not even be able to participate, never mind be a difference-maker.
Moammar Gadhafi continues to bring the crazy. He is now calling for jihad against . . . Switzerland.
Nicolas Sarkozy kinda sorta apologized for France’s role in Rwanda’s 1994 genocide. Perhaps Rwanda should kinda sorta accept.
Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga met earlier this week in hopes of breaking the political deadlock that has set in between the two factions the men represent. It appears that no real progress was made in the meeting, but hopefully it will settle down some of the skittishness that has set in in a country where of late skittishness has led to fairly serious crises.
Umary Yar-Adua is back in Nigeria. But we still have no idea as to the real status of his health, which has kept him under medical care and isolated from the world since November. Mark my words, this is the beginning, not the end, of a fraught period in Nigerian politics.
