jimcwaters | June 30, 2013
Turkey in Africa: The best local weekly in Ouaga (Le Economiste du Faso) gives a real life example, printing a story of four Burkinabe that have arrived to study in the eastern city of Gaziantep Turkey. They began studying in a college that the Turks built in Ouaga. Although Turkey’s engagement in Africa started in 1998, […]
jimcwaters | June 23, 2013
China –Russia: The radio Station Ekho Moskvi had a great interview (Cvoimi glazami—in our eyes) on the on-the-ground state of trade and relations in two towns along the China Russia border, chock full of all the common Russian views of the Chinese. While in the western press there have been a long-running theme of the […]
jimcwaters | June 16, 2013
Items I found interesting, outside of the continual feeds on Turkey, Syria, and surveillance and leaks in the US: African airlines, it’s pride is in shame–despite the fact that Kenyan, one of the best inter-African and reliable airlines just reported a $100 million loss, the only direction here is growth, with African airlines only accounting […]
jimcwaters | June 15, 2013
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