26 August, 2009

Mozambique: Mozam: Coal projects to generate billions

Africa News
Mozambique has said that it expects to reap billions from coal projects by the year 2015. The southern African country is currently running coal projects in Tete which will generate about $ 1.5 billion a year in revenue starting 2015. The coal projects are being run by two firms from Brazil and Australia.

Book: Genocide From the Inside

Slate, Johann Hari
Tracy Kidder asks how a traumatized African becomes an American. How does a traumatized African become an American? Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Tracy Kidder's tender work of narrative journalism Strength in What Remains tries to answer these questions by tracing Deogratias' story—from his hungry, barefoot childhood in the hills of Burundi to being a medical doctor in America.