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Peepoo: Disposable Toilet for Manure

atsil — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 02:14:07 +0000

The Peepoo bag is a personal single use toilet, that sanitises the human excreta and transforms them into manure.

Fragile Calm Holds in Darfur After Years of Death

atsil — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:33:15 +0000

"It is calm, very calm at the moment, but it remains unpredictable."

Reaching the poorest

atsil — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:15:07 +0000

Enrolling the world’s poorest children in school needs new thinking, not just more money from taxpayers.

Tents come down

atsil — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:09:46 +0000

Tomorrow’s fugitive will live in a slum, not under canvas

Bloody business in Africa

atsil — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 11:51:41 +0000

Did Israeli individuals and companies break the law regarding military exports?

The baby bonanza

atsil — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 07:18:31 +0000

Africa does not seem to be an exception to the rule that, as countries get richer, they experience a demographic transition.

Dowden: Altered States, Ordinary Miracles

atsil2 — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:49:35 +0000

The conventional view of Africa as a genocide inside a failed state inside a dictatorship is, in fact, wrong.

Grand Larceny Africa

atsil — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 05:59:58 +0000

In countries that should be setting an example — South Africa, Nigeria and Kenya — the war on corruption has suffered major setbacks before rapacious and ruthless politicians; in Burundi and the Congo Republic, anticorruption campaigners have been killed. Read more: Grand Larceny Africa (New York Times)

China driving harder bargains in Africa

atsil2 — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 02:40:00 +0000

The latest symbol of an old and sturdy alliance: a $50 million, 50,000-seat stadium.

Africa’s economies in the downturn

atsil — Fri, 29 May 2009 05:02:39 +0000

The IMF says some African countries can spend their way out of recession. Read more: Africa’s economies in the downturn (economist.com)

Bioenergie könnte der Armut in Westafrika entgegenwirken

atsil — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:25:18 +0000

"Nachhaltige Bioenergie ist eine Waffe, mit der westafrikanische Länder die Armut bekämpfen können"
Im Auftrag der UEMOA und des "Rural Hub for Western and Central Africa", einem west-afrikanischen NGO-Netzwerk für ländliche Entwicklungen, fand der Bericht heraus, daß diese erdölimport-abhängigen Länder genügend anbaufähiges Land und Wälder besitzen, um ausreichend Nahrungsvorräte zu erzeugen und gleichzeitig Biomasse für die Produktion von großen Mengen an Bioenergie für den eigenen Bedarf zu produzieren.

China is ‘fuelling war in Darfur’

atsil — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:39:51 +0000

The BBC has found the first evidence that China is currently helping Sudan's government militarily in Darfur.

The Panorama TV programme tracked down Chinese army lorries in the Sudanese province that came from a batch exported from China to Sudan in 2005.

Bright prospects…

atsil — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 01:06:59 +0000

Gold is gaining new interest nowadays. For those who became soiled over and over by digging for it gold hardly offers any bright prospects.

Behind the reluctance of China and Africa to criticize Mugabe

atsil — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 10:58:50 +0000

The Zimbabwe case should be more than a tragedy for its own people