Even as President Omar al-Bashir was declared winner on Monday, reports of widespread corruption were still coming in from Sudan’s 16,500 far-flung polling stations. I am not talking about the structural issues that long-ago ensured the vote in this miserably poor, war-torn nation of 41 million people wouldn’t be a fair one – the manipulated census, the gerrymandering, the packing of the National Election Commission with ruling party retainers, or the use of patronage to secure blocks of votes and suppress competition. ... read more >>
Posts Tagged ‘Africa’
Children poisoned picking tobacco, study finds
Wednesday, August 26th, 2009
Child labourers in Africa’s tobacco fields are slowly being poisoned by their exposure to high levels of nicotine and tobacco dust, while multinational companies increasingly shift their tobacco production to Africa, a new study says. ... read more >>
Child labourers in Africa’s tobacco fields are slowly being poisoned by their exposure to high levels of nicotine and tobacco dust, while multinational companies increasingly shift their tobacco production to Africa, a new study says. ... read more >>
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