news24.com/News24/Africa/Zimbabwe (Obama speaks out):
US presidential candidate Barack Obama said on Wednesday the international community must do more to try to help resolve Zimbabwe’s political crisis, and to put pressure on Robert Mugabe, who is clinging to power. He singled out South Africa as one country that needs to apply more pressure on Mugabe, 84, [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "End-of-June Zimbabwe links", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/06/end-of-june_zimbabwe_links.html" });
Photos from “Curse of the Black Gold: 50 Years of Oil in the Niger Delta
The lure of oil is its cheapness. What we mean is that oil is a cheap source of energy. It is cheap partly because oil’s costs of extraction—in the Niger Delta and much of the tropical world—are not reflected in the [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Niger Delta: 50 years of oil", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/06/niger_delta_50_years_of_oil.html" });