Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
February 28, 2010
Sarkozy visits Rwanda
A couple of days ago Nicolas Sarkozy, during a tour of French-speaking African countries, visited Rwanda, the first visit by a French leader for 25 years. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
February 26, 2010
Lybia’s holy war against Switzerland
Preoccupied by the Afghan war, health care, the bizarre killing in Dubai and so much more, the situation between Switzerland and Lybia almost escaped us. And yet the tense relation between the two nations has been going on for a while. It all began apparently in 2008 when Gaddafi’s son, Hannibal, was arrested in Geneva accused of having abused his domestic servants. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
August 30, 2009
Ethiopia faces famine again
Hard to believe that it was almost a quarter of a century that the Live Aid concert took place with many of the worlds pop starts. It was 1985 and many of us were enthusiastic about the large amount of money it was raised (approx. $283.6 million) for famine relief in Ethiopia. Now we are facing the same threat. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
June 17, 2009
An ambitious and encouraging solar project
On November 28, 2007, his Royal Highness Prince Hassan bin Talal of Jordan, former president of The Club of Rome, presented a White Book about the DESERTEC Concept to the European Parliament. This is part of what he said: “More than 40 years ago the Apollo Space Program was launched to fulfill the old dream of taking man into outer space. Today, we have a bigger dream, to restore balance between man and his home planet, Earth. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
October 30, 2008
A not so tranquil world
It is already Thursday which means only four days to the E day. What a relief. Specially when I have said I would not write anymore about the elections -short of something real big were to happen- and I am being so tempted after so many millions dissapearing on the air yesterday…. Read the rest of this entry »
