Africa

There’s been a drug bust across six East African countries. However, this drug bust is much different than the ones in the United States. The drugs confiscated in this case were fake anti-malaria drugs, vaccines and antibiotics.

As 2015 draws closer, the Millennium Development Goals are becoming more attainable than ever before. One of the critical pieces of the Millennium Development Goals is the fight against malaria.  Success in that fight has produced RESULTS across the board.
Check out this new video from the Malaria No More Policy Center, demonstrating the myriad successes that the world has seen from the tremendous efforts against malaria so far:

I’m a sucker for typologies. I guess they’re a wonk’s equivalent of those ‘what were the ten best punk/ska/heavy metal albums of all time?’ discussions in the pub. Here’s a nice one from ‘Lions on the Move’, a breathlessly upbeat new McKinsey report on Africa. It finds four clusters of African economies + a few outliers. Click on the scatterplot for a clearer picture.

This is my 300th post on Global Dashboard.  My first, posted on 15 November 2007, was about how peacekeeping was in a troubled state, with senior UN officials warning of “failure” in Darfur.  And here we are almost three years later and I’ve recently been blogging away about, er, the possibility of a peacekeeping failure in Darfur…