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...opposition Socialist Party's sharpest minds - and a leading contender for a 2012 presidential bid. For now, however, the besieged IMF chairman finds himself at the center of a storm stemming from an acknowledged extramarital affair with IMF subordinate Piroska Nagy, who oversaw the organization's African department until she resigned in August of this year...
Companies involved in microfinance and small business lending have already taken notice of the team’s work. TechnoServe, a U.S.-based organization that provides training for entrepreneurs in poor rural areas, and Business Partners, Ltd., a South African lender, have already signed on to implement the program...
...treaty. Now retired from the international justice system, Goldstone is a visiting professor at several American universities. “We hope students are learning, and lord knows I’ve learned from him,” said Frank I. Michelman, who is teaching a course on South African constitutional law with Goldstone this semester. “It would be just about impossible to image anyone who would be more deserving of this award than Justice Goldstone...
Bashir has tried to woo African Union leaders, who have a tendency to close ranks around colleagues who become the target of accusations of rights abuses or political shenanigans. And so far, it has worked. The African Union has asked the U.N. Security Council to order the ICC to suspend its Darfur investigations on the grounds that they pose a threat to international peace and security. African Union leaders also say that by prosecuting Bashir, the ICC will complicate matters for U.N. peacekeepers in Darfur, most of whom are from neighboring countries on the continent. Bashir attempts to stall...
...Since launching his foundation, however, Ibrahim says he had been surprised to discover that his impressions were increasingly historic. "Ten or 20 years ago, the African archetype was an autocratic country, with one state television station, one state newspaper and one state radio broadcaster," says Ibrahim. "That's no longer the case. Suddenly civil society is active. There are thousands of young Africans who are educated and getting on with it. Everybody speaks to everybody now. People's lives are no longer a monopoly of the government...