FOR ALL ANTI-CORRPUTION CRUSADERS

Hi- I saw an interesting article in this weeks East African (march 26) about how Wikipedia and a few other web sites allow you to post and view (anonymously) evidence of graft. I think this is a great resource especially here in Africa where all to often, access to government document transactions are opaque. Here is the list

http://www.wikileaks.org

http://www.marskenya.org (For east africans, Mwalimu Mati is the director of the Mars Group)

http://ww1.transparency.org

Economic Justice Forum!

I was not aware this was going on, especially so soon after the WSF! Interesting site and schedule and anti-povery message resonates.

http://www.bond.org.uk/campaign/forummar07.htm

enjoy

Oxfam slams bilateral trade deals

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6472125.stm

in response to the blogger that had concerns about Chinese loans, look at what Oxfam has to say about the WTO and bilateral trade deals between developed and developing nations, it seems that either way developing nations are the losers!

genetically engineered mosquitos!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6468381.stm

this story was on BBC news today, i guess it sounds like a good idea, but what happens if the mosquitos dont outnumber the ones that are 'infected with malaria', i guess the reasoning is sound, that the malaria mosquitos will die out in favor of these GM ones, but aren't mosquitos able to mutate, so that the malaria virus doesnt affect them? is that not why they have survived all these eons ? in which case this experiment would be useless..

CHINA LOANS TO AFRICA

is it really a loan? what does this mean for donor programs in africa? all i know is that africa should really be weary of all this renewed interest in her resources. we have been through this before

second hand cars

Does anyone know a respected auto dealer in Mombasa where i can buy a used 4x4 for use in donor projects?