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Sunday, 12 February 2012

Boko Haram

This is not senseless at all. You have everything backwards. Boko Haram should have absolutely nothing against oil companies,

Think education.Their name is "Western or non-Islamic education is a sin". Anyone who try to promote education in Nigeria is hated by half of the country. Boko Haram itself is killing for stating that Earth is a sphere, species evolved or rain comes from evaporated water.

Galapagos tortoises




They are from Taronga Zoo.

This is her, it's a female, first and only child at the age of 90.

Afghanistan survey

This is survey's summary. It is still hot, only three months since publication, so it won't be implemented into World Bank statistics in a year. World Bank does much research, but not necessarily about public health.
Fertility has dropped sharply (2 children per women less), with 20% of women using modern contraceptives. 60% of women use antenatal care. For working-age males mortality dropped by half and is lower than in Pakistan.
Overall statistics are one step worse than in Pakistan, Nepal or Bangladesh, but this is tremendous improvement. I believe that Afghanistan has fastest improving HDI in history, so improvement in health are coupled with improvement in education or economy.

Saturday, 10 December 2011

Osani



This is Democratic Republic of Congo.

These are Efe people.



Pygmy kids playing Osani ("love") game. They are sitting in circle, feet touching. Each kid names round object or cyclical/circular figure of speech: eye, sun, moon, circle of family. Player who fail go out. Game ends when there is only one left.

Belarus


Fact: Belarus is in almost geographical center of Europe.
Fun fact: Belarus was made famous this year when, in a freak accident, fox shot hunter during the foxhunt. This makes Belarus more like Soviet Russia than modern Russsia itself.
From this country:

Daily Life in Belarus http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/07/daily_life_in_belarus.html

Internet-famous nude Belorussian man cutting through ice

Corrupt regime serving specific part of the country

Clientelism is the word you are looking for.
Well-known examples are:
Lega Nord in Italy,
Convergence and Union in Spain,
Kenya African National Union,
Sunnis in Bahrain and so on,
Everywhere, where you are expected to follow political leaders for privileges for your ethnic or religious group.

Where some of companies from Guangdong may go?

I've made a list of countries, where healthcare is better or little worse than in China, but manufacturing is lacking. In order of population living in larger cities:
Indonesia 22m,
Bangladesh 18m,
Egypt 16m,
Colombia 15m,
Philippines 13m,
Vietnam 12m,
Morocco 7m,
Iraq 6m,
Syria 6m,
Ukraine 5m -superior in infrastructure and education, clearly giving the right conditions the winner,
North Korea 5m,
Uzbekistan 3m,
There are other similar economies (Cape Verde, Moldova, Armenia, Guatemala...), but they are tiny and will never form manufacturing cluster.
As you can see most of these places lies outside Africa. You cannot start manufacturing without reasonably run city and most African countries don't have that or they have some industry already - Tunisia, Mauritius.