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OK, the ordeal is over for the 6 Bulgarian and the solo Palestinian doctor, Sarkozy and his sidekicks got the much needed political boast, but for over 400 children infected with the AIDS virus, the monitory compensation is nothing more than a slap on the face by rich Europeans nations and an utter disrespect to the value of human life, especially the lives of the under-privileged.

Simple math (as we always use) suggest that a child in Africa can be infected with aids (knowingly or due to poor working conditions- whatever) for a million USD, or less than £500,000 per child.

How much will it cost to infect …

Thought this was cool, according to BBC:
Tanzania has been given permission to import rain-making technology from the king of Thailand, Thai media report.
The patented cloud-seeding technique involves aircraft releasing a chemical into clouds to induce rainfall.
How it works?

Aircraft or artillery spray chemicals (often silver iodide or dry ice) into clouds to encourage tiny vapour droplets to coalesce
Droplets of supercooled water (liquid below 0C) coalesce into snow and melt as they fall
Heat released as the droplets freeze boosts updrafts, which pull more moist air into the cloud

I am pretty sure this has been around for a while, had not see it mentioned in the news for a long while though!

Originally posted at D.C. Watch

On this hot sunny Independence Day, I sit in my comfy chair and browse while this news catches my attention. And I wonder, “If it is so hot here, imagine how bad it should be in places like Africa?�

Is it really hard for one to accept that it is getting hotter each year? Are we in denial, just to defend our political ideologue?

According to a report on BBC, the Gleneagles Summit pledged:

Help Africa “improve resilience and integrate adaptation goals into sustainable development strategies”
Work to increase the use of renewable energy within the continent
Strengthen the Clean Development Mechanism, a Kyoto Protocol process with the potential to help poor countries set up renewable energy facilities
Work to tackle illegal logging
Improve Africa’s capacity for environmental and climatic research

Under the Kyoto protocol, which preceded the Gleneagles Summit, the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) was designed to introduce clean energy technologies into the world’s poorer regions. Richer nations with emissions targets to meet can choose instead to invest in clean energy systems in developing countries and receive carbon credits for doing so.

Yet a year later, less than 2 percent of the 210 CDM projects registered were in Africa. With the major share going to India, China and Brazil, which provide the western world “cheap commodities and service�. Africa lacks energy technologies in areas including hydroelectric and geo-thermal sectors, promoting the continuing trend of illegal logging, inducing anthropogenic climate change.

The obvious nature of these Summits seems far more self-serving than for the common good of all. If Africa were to provide in return to the richer countries good of value (of less value to be precise), would then have been a more equitable distribution of such (CDM) projects? Africa has and continues to be the most neglected continent, politically and otherwise. What we fail to understand is that climate change is not geographically limited to Africa, failing to address ecologically issues in one area can manifest into a catastrophe elsewhere.

For the BBC report, click here.

Zimbabwe has lifted a ban on the practice of witchcraft starting July, repealing a legislation that dates back to English rule. The report suggests that there were numerous accounts of the use of magic, and the new law effectively legitimizes many practices of traditional healers. These include rolling bones to foretell the future, divination, attempts to communicate with the dead, using muti-traditional powders and fetishes-to ensure the desired sex of a child.

Now here’s an interesting comparison with all things Western that would give Witchcraft a run for its money.

Rolling bones to foretell the future :: Gazing into a crystal ball to foretell the future (Clairvoyance)
Divination :: Miss Cleo
Attempts to communicate with the dead :: John Edward
Using muti-traditional powders :: Pharmaceuticals
Fetishes :: Fetishes

I think we are not any different or superior to any African headhunter (with due apologies), we mock their culture, then turn around and act like idiots ourselves. Humans intrinsically believe in the supernatural, some call it witchcraft, others religion. Need proof of admittance, here’s what Reverend Roy Musasiwa who runs a theological college in the capital, Harare said, “As Christians we’ve got to recognize that supernatural forces are good if they originate from God - now witchcraft is one of the things that originates from the Satanic world.”

More on the Zimbabwe repeal, visit BBC

Teachers in Uganda are combating villagers who are breaking into schools to use their toilets. It is believed that some dare break padlocks and barbed wires to use the facilities meant for children, because they do not have pit latrines in their own homes. Tororo district council chairman Okongo Ignatious Boma is quoted saying “Every person who is arrested should be made to dig a pit latrine at their own home.”
Residents of Uganda faced with the quintessential urge to relieve themselves have no place to GO, literally.
For more visit http://news2.thdo.bbc.co.uk/4971848.stm