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Zambia views corruption as poverty road block

The priorities of president Michael Sata of Zambia have emerged from his first month in office. Stamping out corruption is the chosen path to good relations with international donors and to accelerated poverty reduction.

Published October 26, 2011
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged corruption, foreign aid, zambia

Zambian phones let off the Libyan hook

Disclosure of the holdings of the Libyan Investment Authority is causing some embarrassment. But sympathy may be more appropriate for the Zambia’s telecommunications company.

Published April 14, 2011
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged libya, zambia
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Editor of Tread Softly briefings on global justice. Involved with local renewable energy, Hampshire Hogs Cricket, Winchester Poetry Festival and City of Winchester Trust. Still playing fives and real tennis. Views my own. Please respect copyright.

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Heaviness of being. And poetry
Sluggish in the doldrums of what happens.
Me waiting until I was nearly fifty
To credit marvels. Like the tree-clock of tin cans
The tinkers made. So long for air to brighten,
Time to be dazzled and the heart to lighten.

Seamus Heaney, from Seeing Things