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News Day reported this week that street vendors in Harare and Mutare cried foul on Monday after they were forcibly driven off their illegal vending sites in the city during a combined cleansing operation involving the military, municipal and members of the Zimbabwe Republic Police. dailymaverick.co.za/
Zimbabwe government which has been under military control for over three weeks since the ouster of Robert Mugabe is almost certainly responsible for Tuesday internet blackout that shut down virtually all Internet service in the country, according to a senior military operative based at the University of Zimbabwe’s Centre for High-Performance Computing (Zim-CHPC). pazimbabwe.com/
The Democratic Republic of Congo is potentially one of the richest countries on earth, but colonialism, slavery and corruption have turned it into one of the poorest. bbc.com/
Global estimates of modern slavery: Forced labour and forced marriage show that among the victims, about 25 million were in forced labour, and 15 million were in forced marriage. un.org/
Debate around reparations is threatening because it upends the usual narrative of development. The impact of colonialism cannot be ignored. theguardian.com/
There were specific economic decisions that created the Greek crisis. It needn’t have happened if it weren’t deemed useful by the powers-that-be in Europe. The crisis was real, but it was largely manufactured by people who were creating distractions from Europe’s real problems. mintpressnews.com/ |
There is a saying in computer science: garbage in, garbage out. When we feed machines data that reflects our prejudices, they mimic them – from antisemitic chatbots to racially biased software. Does a horrifying future await people forced to live at the mercy of algorithms? 
