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Zambia's president dead at 59 |
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Saturday, 23 August 2008 |
 Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa succumbed to his illness in a French
hospital on Tuesday at 59. Mwanawasa, who was hospitalized for a stroke
two months ago, was known for his anti-corruption stance.
"It is with deep sorrow that I have to tell the people of Zambia that
our president ... has passed away this morning," Vice President Rupiah
Banda said on radio and television, announcing a weeklong period of
national mourning.
Though the vice president did not disclose the cause of death, he said Mwanawasa had gotten worse on Monday.
Mwanawasa collapsed on June 30 a day before the African Union summit in
Egypt and was taken to Percy Military Hospital in Paris.
According to reports, French President Nicolas Sarkozy described his
death as "a great loss for the African continent" and for democracy.
According to the constitution, elections are supposed to be held in 90 days, leaving a power gap in Zambia until then.
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Inquiry launched after radioactive material sent |
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Monday, 18 August 2008 |
HAMILTON - A government investigation has been launched after asbestos
and radioactive material from the derelict Club Med site here was
accidentally shipped to the United States.
Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Works and Engineering, Robert
Horton, said the inquiry was ordered after US authorities discovered
the materials on a ship arriving in New Jersey. The materials were sent
back to Bermuda amid safety concerns.
"There were two containers shipped to New Jersey, one of which we
expected to have contained scrap metal but which actually contained
asbestos. Apparently there was some mix-up," he told reporters.
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Sunday, 10 August 2008 |
The HIV epidemic in the U.S., according to the U.S. Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC), is much worse than was previously known.
The CDC announced in a report released at the 17th International AIDS
Conference currently being held in Mexico City that the incidence of
HIV infected cases in the U.S. was closer to 56,300 per year rather
than the 40,000 that was previously reported. According to the report
the increased numbers is the result of the use of a new statistical
tool that is more accurate in determining when a new HIV infection
actually occurs, rather than when it is diagnosed.
The revised figure is an indication that HIV infections in the US has
increased by 41 percent for the 15-year period since 1991. The new data
also indicates that HIV cases in Florida were revised from 4,550 per
annum to 6,000. According to reports, a pioneering AIDS researcher at
the University of Miami School of Medicine, Dr. Margaret Fischi, said
that experts have suspected for some time that the HIV epidemic in the
US was worse than was being reported.
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Mandela, still a dominant figure at 90 |
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Thursday, 17 July 2008 |
Former South African president Nelson (Madiba) Mandela, arguably the
most renown and beloved African Leader, celebrates his 90th birthday on
Friday, July 18. Although Mandela has grown frail with age, he is
nonetheless a man of tremendous influence in South Africa, and all of
Africa.
Two weeks ago Mandela, in a rare public appearance, celebrated his
birthday at a widely publicized rock concert held in London. On Friday
he plans to spend his actual birthday privately with family in his
boyhood village of Qunu, located 600 miles south of Johannesburg. This
is the village where he built a replica of the house in which he was
held after being removed from a desolate offshore prison on Robben
Island, South Africa in which he spent 27 years.
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Post-colonial Economic Genocide |
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Friday, 11 July 2008 |
There are many factors that have contributed to Zimbabwe’s economic
dilemma since its independence from Britain. One is President Robert
Mugabe’s attempt to redistribute wealth to native Zimbabweans in the
1990s, which many see as a chief contributor to the collapse of a once
booming economy.
In this redistribution scheme, Mugabe encouraged Blacks to take over
White-owned farms, which are now no longer operative and were
significant to the survival of Zimbabwe’s once vital agricultural
industry. Experts point out that Zimbabwe now has the highest inflation
rate in the world.
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