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  • Re: Understanding Food Prices

    Posted: April 22, 2008, 5:12 pm
    The consensus around the world is that there is a food crisis upon us, and that the world simply cannot produce enough food to feed the growing population.

    The New York Times contributes as it continues to substitute hyperbole for information in its reporting on rising food prices:

    Hunger bashed in the front gate of Haiti's presidential palace. Hunger poured onto the streets, burning tires and taking on soldiers and the police. Hunger sent the country's prime minister packing.

    Haiti's hunger, that burn in the belly that so many here feel, has become fiercer than ever in recent days as global food prices spiral out of reach, spiking as much as 45 percent since the end of 2006 and turning Haitian staples like beans, corn and rice into closely guarded treasures.

    Read more from Chris Blattman here.

  • Mungiki: A Perspective

    Posted: April 22, 2008, 5:12 pm

    Some time in 2003, the City Council of Nairobi constructed access roads into the Soweto slums of Embakasi. The slum, as is the norm in informal settlements across the country, had its vigilantes- a neighbourhood watch of some kind- who took care of anything and everything from security to conflict resolution.

    The access roads were quickly blocked off by hawkers and traders, who laid their wares on each side of the road so that vehicles could no longer access the slum.

  • The Kenya National Youth Alliance: An Apology

    Posted: April 22, 2008, 5:11 pm
    The history of nations is written with the bloody point of a sword; the road to nationhood is paved with the corpses of heroes; the rivers of sovereignty, emancipation, social justice and equity burst their banks with the blood of believers. Our ancestors were martyred that we might possess this land. The war they fought, the deeds they signed, the alliances they made, all these brought us to that morning of December 12th 1963. Uhuru! And on December 12th 1964, the Republic of Kenya was realised. Independent, free, sovereign.

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