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Malawi: Political crisis in the midst of starvation
Raphael Mwenenguwe - 12/1/2005
Malawi has been under a multiparty system of government for the past 11 years now. For 30 years since Independence from Britian, the country was ruled with an iron fist under the “mighty” Malawi Congress Party (MCP) led by the late Dr. Hastings Kamuzu Banda. Banda, who lost in 1994 general elections to United Democratic Front (UDF) president Bakili Muluzi, never allowed any opposition in his way and many of those who opposed him either fled the country or died in the hands of the police and the notorious Malawi Young Pioneers, a military wing of the MCP.

Namibia's Failing Land Reform And Tribal Warfare
Jan Lamprecht - 6/25/2005
"Poverty Monitoring" sounds pretty innocuous at first. The government expresses "concern" over the "gap" between rich and poor, wanting to narrow it. Unfortunately, that is the essence of socialism. But note that the gap between the "German-speaking people" (White Germans) is a point of "concern". The government intends to narrow the gap between the White Germans and the other people including the San (Bushmen). And they will be taking corrective action to get them there over the next 10 years.