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Government has partnered with the United States to set up the first forensic laboratory in Zambia. The overall value of the five-year Public-Private Partnership (PPP) is estimated at US$10m. The lab will be ready for use in August this year.
The PPP includes GRZ, US government, and the private sector partners Georgian Foundation, Sorensen Forensics, and Zambia Society for Child Protection. In the first year, the GRZ government will provide the largest contribution of nearly US$2m.
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President Goodluck Jonathan has refused to say whether he will run for the presidency in 2015, although many Nigerians expect...
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Karim Wade, the son of octogenarian ex-president Abdoulaye Wade, has been sitting in a central Dakar prison for nearly a month as he awaits trial for corruption charges. The younger Wade was arrested and formally charged with illicit enrichment after an investigation revealed that he amassed $1.4 billion in personal wealth. During his father's presidency [...]
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From the Rockefeller Foundation:
A partnership between Next City and Forum for the Future, Informal City Dialogues homes in six cities: Accra, Bangkok, Chennai, Lima, Manila and Nairobi. These are places of extraordinary energy. The informal realms, from single-chair barbershops to nine-passenger vans to sprawling settlements, are propelling the explosive growth of the urban Global South. They are the neighborhoods, economies and systems that exist beyond the reach of government: the slums, black-market industries and undocumented businesses that fuel these cities' growth. They're split off from the formal city, and often neglected or harassed by local authorities. In 2013, Next City will tell these people's stories through our online hub...[continue reading]
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On dying heritage:
...Busuu is a language spoken by only 8 people in the entire world. To avoid its extinction, we decided to travel to a remote village in Cameroon to ask its speakers to create a video that will encourage everyone to learn Busuu.via Creative Roots
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Two recent parties actually. First up is the Catholic priest Frank Bwalya who recently announced he is forming a new party. Frank Bwalya says President Michael Sata has lost it and that time has come for Zambians to look to him for direction. His decision apparently came to him as "part of the visions that God has been showing him". He has a vision for a Zambia which will have not street kids among other things.
He is promising to introduce a new type of politics and has already launched a yellow card campaign against the PF government for "failing to keep mealie meal prices low" and "its selective prosecution". The name of the party is secret until such a time when it is right to announce it. He says this is to void the hijacking of the name of his yet to be launched political party.
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GRZ is allegedly in talks with three airlines about taking an equity stake in a new national carrier Air Zambia Ltd. and expects it to make its debut flight by the end of the year.
Transport PS Muyenga Atanga says, "We are 60 percent advanced in all our preparations. We are quite confident that before the end of the year we should have a national airline."
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Simukai Tinhu analyzes the staying power of Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF party in a thoughtful article, "Zimbabwe: Mugabe's Will to Power." It...
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In a 2010 interview, Aristide Zolberg--the pioneer Africanist political scientist who died on April 12 at the age of 81--described his early interest in the politics of a continent in the first throes of independence: "India was a beacon of the future, and of the triumph of the powerless over the powerful. Africa, and in [...]
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