President Patrick Levy Mwanawasa of Zambia died at a hospital in the French capital, Paris. He died on Tuesday nearly two months after he suffered stroke at a recent African Union summit in Cairo, Egypt. Former President Frederick Chiluba called to express his condolences to the first family and the ruling Movement for Multiparty Democracy [...]

Via Akin:
This is just unbelievable, and it makes observers of issues in Africa really despair of possibilities of development or progress if these leaders cannot tackle what is evidently an untenable political and economic situation on their borders because of that kinship of the liberation struggle that took place over generation ago.
There is a saying [...]

Cho muses via New Zambia:
I had a very fascinating discussion with some Zimbabwean friends this week on the precarious nature of any post Mugabe transition. In debating the key relative merits of changing the current regime - the key question is whether Zimbabwe will be stable if Mugabe leaves, and what can be done to [...]

A brain drain or human capital flight, according to Wikipedia, is an emigration of trained and talented individuals (”human capital”) to other nations or jurisdictions, due to conflicts, lack of opportunity, health hazards where they are living, discrimination or other reasons. It parallels the term “capital flight” which refers to financial capital that is no [...]