Sub-Saharan Africa Daily Blog Roundup

Posted 5 July 2005 23:14 GMT

Countries	Ethiopia, Lesotho, South Africa, Zimbabwe
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Ethiopia

Timbuktu Chronicles passes on some interesting information about a virtual marketplace, enabled by the use of cellphones.

Andrew Heavens of Meskel Square interviews two Addis Ababa university students about Live 8.

Africa Vox is a group blog by African journalists who are covering the G8 summit this year. Via Kenya Pundit.

The BBC has a good roundup of African blog reaction to Live 8; faithful readers of Global Voices Online will note that much of the coverage echoes our own Ethan Zuckerman's ongoing coverage of the same event.

There's a new Lesotho blog directory on the web.

Black Looks laments the fact that W8, a conference about women's rights in Africa, was barely noticed in the mainstream press last week.

This is Zimbabwe posts an article about how the forex market works in Zimbabwe.

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Updates about Sub-Saharan Africa

9 February 2012

Burkina Faso

Afrik.com reports that [fr]: ” because of the low harvest and an increase of 60 to 80 % in cereal pricing, 10 millions people across Niger, Mali, Mauritania, Burkina Faso and Chad will be affected by food security issues, including 1.6 million children.”

• Lova Rakotomalala

7 February 2012

Swaziland

Richard Rooney discusses the hypocrisy of King Mswati III of Swaziland: “King Mswati III of Swaziland is being hypocritical when he expresses disappointment at individuals who continue to plunder state resources for personal benefit. That’s because he is the biggest plunderer of state resources and he has bled his subjects dry for his own personal gain.”

• Ndesanjo Macha

Food

Kathryn interviews Jonathan Groves, the executive chef at Ngala Lodge in the Gambia: “Have you ever cooked for 900 people for a wedding and have 1,500 turn up! No, unsurprisingly, me neither. Jonathan Groves, the superb chef at Ngala Lodge has.”

• Ndesanjo Macha

Tanzania

“Low timer pilots handbook to bush flying?,” Bush Pilot in Swakopund asks: “I was wondering if any of you would be interested in an e-book that has all the information about the where's, how's and what's of the job hunt in Botswana, Namibia, Tanzania (and also some other information I have).

• Ndesanjo Macha

Ghana

Three ICT books have been launched in Ghana, Seth Bokpe reports: “THREE books on Information Communication Technology (ICT) have been launched in Accra to enhance the teaching and learning of the subject in educational institutions.”

• Ndesanjo Macha

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