A riot over price hikes in Mozambique has brought services to a halt in the capital Maputo. At least six people have been reported dead, and hundred more injured when the police fired shots to disperse crowds of people protesting in the streets on Wednesday. The protesters barricaded roads, hurled rocks at cars, set ablaze […]
The U.S. government has made several related moves that now allows it go after the Pakistani Taliban with meat and muscle. The U.S. Department of Justice has charged Hakimullah Mesud, the alleged leader of the Tehrik e-Taliban with conspiracy to murder 7 C.I.A officers. Using a Jordanian physician as a double-agent the Tehrik-e-Taliban were able […]
“It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.” Saint Augustine According to a report in Dawn, once again, Pakistanis have embarrassed themselves, and ironically enough, their struggling country the other day at Washington Dulles Airport by acting awfully. Bravo. It is unfortunate to note that there has […]
Foreign Policy magazine has an interesting article by Lawson Brigham, who I recently wrote about in my blog after his visit to UCLA. It’s entitled, “The Arctic: Everyone wants a piece of the thawing far north. But that doesn’t mean anarchy will reign at the top of the world.” In the article, Brigham contends with […]
Islam, like other religions, instructs its followers to first help protect and comfort those who are in trouble. Therefore, it only makes sense that folks, especially those who are supporting the construction of a new mosque at Ground Zero abandon the mosque project and instead help the victims of horrendous floods in Pakistan. No, I […]
The White House-brokered Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations kicked off today in Washington, with all the usual fanfare, including efforts by Hamas and Israeli radicals to derail talks. A right-wing Shas rabbi called for the annihalation of the Palestinians while Palestinian terrorists murdered four Israelis in the West Bank. Here is how the administration is responding to […]
The big news from Russia has been yet another series of arrests at an opposition rally. Nemtsov and Limonov were predictably hauled off while astute bloggers dissected Putin’s latest macho threat that unauthorised protesters would be hit upside the head with a truncheon. Yet behind these political theatrics, another much less boisterous yet much more […]
In the past two years there have been many (one is too many) reported cases of Afghan girls mysteriously falling ill at school. It was widely speculated that members of the Taliban were purposefully poisoning these girls in order to punish/intimidate them from getting an education. Sadly, recent tests have shown that in ten of […]
Hinduism is a religion of festivities. Pomp, color, dance and music, assortment of delicacies, traditional costumes and merry making are usually associated with most Hindu festivals. Janmashtami- celebration of Lord Krishna’s birth, epitomizing the grandeur of Hindu festivities was observed in India on September 1. The Janmashtami celebrations, like most Hindu festivals, have come to […]
Last night, President Obama addressed the nation about the end to the U.S. combat mission in Iraq. Packed to the brim with bizarre nautical references, he embarked (pun very much intended) “to give us confidence that our course is true, and that beyond the pre-dawn darkness, better days lie ahead.” Ultimately and unfortunately, his message was as mixed as his metaphors.
It is exceedingly rare for an event in Africa to be met with near-universal acclaim. But the approval of Kenya’s new constitution seems to qualify. Kenyans are celebrating the news, in which they played a part by their participation in the referendum to approve the constitution. President Mwai Kibaki, who shares some of the blame […]
This time in the Kingdom of Swaziland as Eastern and Southern Africa heads of state and Government convene for the 14th Summit of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa, starting tomorrow September 1, 2010. Sounds familiar? A little over two weeks ago, Southern Africa heads of state and government met in Windhoek for […]
It looks like the major public sector strike in South Africa might be coming to an end. The government has upped its offer and the unions seem set to accept. There is a prisoner’s dilemma element of every labor action, of course, but at the end of nearly every one across the globe not ended […]
Last week the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights long-awaited mapping report on the crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo leaked. In it Rwanda is implicated in a range of horrible crimes, the most grimly ironic being genocide. Texas in Africa (welcome back!) has a fantastic response.
If you are a company from the overlooked continent, how do you penetrate the international market? For 40 emerging African Challengers, a new breed of ambitious African companies, the answer is to imitate a model based on multinationals from China, India, Brazil, and Russia, referred as “New Global Challengers”, who have recently taken advantage of […]