African Spring 115: African News VII

African Spring 115: African News VII

Kampala, Uganda, June 23, 2012

Speared to death outside Nairobi
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Egypt: as elections come close to the results:

Hosni Mubarak is severely ill - will the Sphinx - pass away as his country passes on?

Judgement: thumbs down

Congo: messy security about to get messier:

Rwanda’s Kagame threatens to withdraw from the peace operations in the DRC. This is a tricky one as one the one hand Rwanda is often seen as one of the troublemakers in the DRC while at the same time bringing security to that region

Judgement: neutral

East African Community

1,300 million dollar stuffed away at Swiss Banks by residents of the EAC. Most of this capital flight some which is expected to be dirty money

Judgement: thumbs down

Nile perch sales down as Eurozone under economic crisis

This massive fish has dropped from $3 to $1.7 per kilo from fisherman to fish processing plant. Leaves more for me to eat!

Judgement: thumbs up

Lions killed in Kitengela, Kenya

Six lions ended up in a neighborhood in Kenya where they killed several goats and sheep. As the local Wildlife Authorities failed to act the local population - Masaai - enraged that their property was being eaten took matters in their own hands and speared the lions to death. They have been arrested by police.

Judgement: thumbs down

Incubators for technological start ups in Africa doing well

Congratulations to GrowthHub, Nairobi  and kLab, Kigali http://klab.rw/

Judgement: thumbs up

Namaskar,

Ashis

Kigali programmers on their way to dominate the world
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