BBC News: The United Arab Emirates is to block sending emails, accessing the internet, and delivering instant messages to other Blackberry handsets. Saudi Arabia is to prevent the use of the Blackberry to Blackberry instant messaging service. Both nations are unhappy that they are unable to monitor such communications via the handsets.
Inflation is now 230,000,000% (officially from July) and hundreds are dead.
According to The Times, Zimbabwe’s Reserve Bank Governor, Gideon Gono, introduced three new bank notes into circulation yesterday. The new $250,000, $500,000 and $750,000 bills replace the $200,000 note, and should actually alleviate the extreme cash shortage at the moment. There just aren’t enough notes in circulation to keep up with inflation. It’s not terribly [...]
Oh shit. This is some bad news. The African National Congress chose the Zulu politician Jacob G. Zuma as its new leader on Tuesday, handing South Africa’s president, Thabo Mbeki, a resounding defeat. The African National Congress chose the Zulu politician Jacob G. Zuma, center, as its new leader on Tuesday. After three days of [...]
Four days ago in Harare, the leading political party’s decision-making body rejected a land reform act that proposed a further purging of the few remaining white farmers in the country. Of course, many opposing Zanu-PF members, which include President Robert Mugabe, are outraged at such a travesty. Mugabe was especially shocked “because he had the [...]
