African countries need investments, China needs raw materials, and African activists are fed up with the resulting corruption and environmental damage.
Chinese Fossil Fuel Investments in Africa
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Brain Drain and the Politics of Immigration
The migration of highly skilled workers can pay dividends for immigrants and their employers, but it produces losers as well.
For $700 Million Mugabe Lets China Write Its Own Rules
Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe has let China write its own rules despite his demand that all foreign-owned mining ventures sell majority holdings to black Zimbabweans.
WikiLeaks VII: Our Man in Zimbabwe Flatters His Way up the Foreign-Service Ladder
Bush’s ambassador to Zimbabwe believed that if we “stayed the course,” our “freedom agenda” would reign.
African Dictatorships and Double Standards
The Bush administration has justifiably criticized the Zimbabwean regime of liberator-turned-dictator Robert Mugabe. It has joined a unanimous UN Security Council resolution condemning the campaign of violence unleashed upon pro-democracy activists and calling for increased diplomatic sanctions in the face of yet another sham election. In addition, both the House and the Senate have passed strongly worded resolutions of solidarity with the people of Zimbabwe in support of their struggle for freedom and democracy.
Democracy Promotion Doublespeak
Zimbabwe Elections, News from Somalia
But on the presidential election side, we really don’t have any official announcement three days after the election, you know, and it is appalling, really, that it is taking so long for the results on the presidential election to be announced.
Mugabe’s Role in Zimbabwe’s Downfall
Voters in Zimbabwe lined up before dawn to vote in elections that pose the biggest challenge to President Robert Mugabe in his 28 years of rule. To get a look behind the news, we’re turning to Emira Woods of the Institute for Policy Studies.
Mozambique’s Soggy Inheritance
Among the Third World solidarity posters adorning the walls of the Valley Peace Center in Amherst, Massachusetts in the early 1970s was one particularly striking photo of a handsome, heroic Mozambican Frelimo guerilla. Above him the text read: Stop The Cabora Bassa Dam! I had no idea why we should stop it, but if the Frente de Libertação de Moçambique said so, that was good enough for me.