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...government can afford." Elsewhere in Africa, AU operations are far more limited, deploying small, ineffective forces in Somalia and Darfur. While the AU did lead efforts to stem post-election violence in Kenya in January, it does little to quell unrest in other areas, such as Congo, Mali, Niger, Nigeria or Uganda, or looming confrontation between Ethiopia and Eritrea, and its observers endorse corrupt elections from Nigeria to Zimbabwe. Kurt Shillinger of the South African Institute of International Affairs in Johannesburg says despite Tuesday's limited action, other events on the continent point to the AU's weakness. "Having stepped...
...countries like Sudan for prospective players? -Tarig Abdalla, Khartoum, SudanActually, we have players from Africa. We've conducted our Basketball Without Borders program there - this will be our fourth year in South Africa. We have players from the Sudan, we have players from Senegal, we've had players from Nigeria. We actually have more games available in Africa over the air, both terrestrially and by satellite, than we do in India. We just made a deal with a telephone company so that folks in Africa can see the NBA on their cell phones when they're not watching...
...compare Nollywood to the Italian neo-realism movement of the ’40s, and that analogy isn’t so far off. For better or for worse, these movies are for the people. The directors, especially Emeruwa, seem firmly decided on capturing stories that portray life in Nigeria and that convey a message about society in their country. “Check Point,” which tells the story of innocent men gunned down by bad cops at a police checkpoint, was actually conceived in reaction to the appointment of a local police chief, who promised...
That may be true for now, but Europe has seen some of the same warning signs as the U.S., including an overvalued housing market. A worldwide slump would be a special concern in poorer countries, says Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, a former Finance Minister of Nigeria who is now a managing director of the World Bank. Food prices there, she notes, are already being driven up in part by demand for biofuels, which is leading to the substitution of food crops by those that can produce fuel. If food stays expensive yet economies in Africa and elsewhere slow, there could...
...Obama's rallies tend to get the crowd chanting and energized, Michelle Obama's are much more poignant, sometimes bringing attendees to tears. At that same speech Amindi Imoh, 18, found himself welling up when she talked about the sacrifices her parents had made. His own parents immigrated from Nigeria in 1981 and, Imoh, said, "It was like she was telling our story...