Quoted: "Rather than a single transaction demonstrating that this all can be done, we are putting together a comprehensive risk management framework for droughts and for ...

Quoted: A Kenyan from Nairobi's slums gets a Masters from the UK university whose prospectus he found in a rubbish bin.

different perspective on China's business model and the land of opportunity in Sudan by Mahmoud A. Suleiman

“One World, One Dream" is China’s slogan for its 2008 summer Olympics in Beijing. But there is one nightmare that China shouldn’t be allowed to sweep under the rug. That nightmare is Darfur, where more than 400,000 people have been killed and more than two-and-a-half million driven from flaming villages by the Chinese-backed government of Sudan. China is pouring billions of dollars into Sudan. Beijing purchases an overwhelming part of Sudan’s oil exports and state-owned China National Petroleum Corporation, an official partner of the upcoming Olympic Games, owns the largest shares in each of Sudan’s two major oil consortia. China has been indirectly funding the Sudanese government’s war effort in Darfur by massively investing in Sudan’s oil industry.

Pete reFave!

Quoted: NAIROBI, 17 October 2007 (IRIN) - Dozens of heavily armed government security officials detained the head of the World Food Programme (WFP) office in Mogadishu, ...

Quoted: A major gun battle breaks out in Somalia's capital as MPs meet in Baidoa to consider the government's future.

Quoted: IRIN interviewed President Isaias Afewerki in Asmara, on 1 October. Eritrea and the Horn of Africa in general remain chronically vulnerable in humanitarian terms due ...

you rock Rebecca...her quotes says it all.

"I feel like, in America, I live on the sun. We have so much energy, so much resources, so much money concentrated in this place," she says. "Just like the sun can give light to the rest of the planet, we can do so much for the rest of the world. "I want to see myself as one of the rays of the sun."

Quoted: Rebecca Mammo didn t receive the best career counseling as a teenager in East Oakland. A refugee from revolution-torn Ethiopia , she lived in a series of foster homes among kids whose lives seemed hopeless. It s going to be very difficult to make it in the world, people told her. I heard that from people of my own color.