Wednesday, January 18, 2006

Miscellaneous comments

I was going to blog on how cellphones are being used in Zim and also being monitored thanks to the Chinese technology.

But the network crashed, and I lost the links

So instead I will post two links from Pajamamedia bloggers about other areas in Africa.

DamianPenny links to Christopher Hitchen's story about Uganda's Army of God...

These children are not running toward Jordan and the Lord; they are running for their lives from the "Lord's Resistance Army" (L.R.A.). This grotesque, zombie-like militia, which has abducted, enslaved, and brainwashed more than 20,000 children, is a kind of Christian Khmer Rouge and has for the past 19 years set a standard of cruelty and ruthlessness that—even in a region with a living memory of Idi Amin—has the power to strike the most vivid terror right into the heart and the other viscera...

And Austin Bay writes about the civil unrest in Nigerian oil fields...actually, I knew about this several years ago, since I was working in Oklahoma, and the workers came back from Nigeria and said they weren't sure if they wanted to go back, despite the pay....

Considering the terrible Civil war there which resulted in at least a million kids starving to death, this is not good news....

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