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Conservative groups target U.S. Republicans who voted to end shutdown

From: Judy Miriga

People of the World,

The world is facing an extreme deadly poisonous Poverty situation in the near future……and it is not only possible, but engineered. Global extreme poverty is engineered starting from the Western Countries and is now headed to Africa. Health news in Germany shows massive resistance to genetically engineered (GE) foods both amongst politicians and the general public who got united against it which caused chemical giant BASF to close its Germans biotech division. Chemical companies are into big business without caring for the future of human life. European opponents of GE foods are jubilant to eradicate GMO organic of gene cross breed transfer. This explains why BASF Drug Company is moving its genetically modified (GM) plant science headquarters from Germany to Raleigh in North Carolina for example.

I am a very worried person, a very worried person in deed about livelihood and survival of Human existence on earth in the next coming few years. If I connect the dots and begin to think hard what I have gone through in recent experience where I was faced with serious circumstance of negativity to save an awkward situation six years ago, when I led a big demonstration to White House to protest on a deadly election stolen in Kenya 2007/8; I now can attest that, I see very clear the picture of that negative forces that pushed against all positive efforts I engaged to save Kenya against the mission forces that wanted Kenya to burn. I look back and critically dicected possible actors of the reason why, and I concluded that, there was a theorized conspiracy going on that politicians did not want it known to public or openly discussed for fear it could backfire adversly and no one wanted it to be heard loudly but undercurrent forces were in big deals and without Gods intervention, that short-changed and finally caused it to fail, it would be a different story in Kenya today.

The very people who ganged against me from pushing the election gone bad in 2007/8, fought very hard and they were led by none other than Prof. Anyang Nyongo teamed with Joe Nyangah and Raila’s advisor Salim Lone who made a good number of trips to USA beginning February of 2008. They met with Russ Feingold with whom they discussed and negotiated and the mission has now turned that GMO has still remain the unfinished business that demanded peoples humongous chunk of land for their Agri-business in Africa.

It was not going to come easy, but people were to be forcefully evicted from their homes and a conspiracy had to be hatched. That people must be vacated from their land in ways and means to pave way for large Drug Companies to illegally and unconstitutionally occupy public land. Although President Bush was able to act immediately who sent State Secretary Condoleezza Rice to go and negotiate for a truce to bring peace in Kenya, Russ Feingold quietly continued to meet privately with Prof. Nyongos group who knew what exactly was cooking in Kenya, and wanted to keep it that way; which is why, Russ Feingold totally and adamantly refused to meet with me even after I sent several requests through Senator Ben Cardin who was initially on chair for Foreign Affairs at the time before it was quickly handed over to Russ Feingold to handle Kenyan situation.I had a rough time but God was faithful and even though it was an upheld struggle, I ended up triumph against all odds that prevailed. I must also accept that, the good result come from my persistence engagement and pestering that brought and delivered good news to Kenya and where, Kofi Annan headrf an eminent team, loaded logistics that succeeded in bringing calm and establishment of peace with the formation of Coalition Government Reform Change that brought with it the New Constitutional order for Kenya.

It is clear now that Russ Feingold was truely after special interest take-over of Kenya and the deal was sealed that, bringing me to the picture was going to spoil for their plan. Shortly afterwards, Museveni who was the instigator, who initiated the ambush to wipe out the Luos from existence in the Luo Nyanza of the Great Lakes of East Africa, was rewarded with the illegal occupation of Migingo in a colourful ceremony where Museveni was adorned with Luo traditional costumes distinction of a King and was given a Luo cultural honorary stool for an elder as a gift.

What fashioned my thinking in this sequence to realize that Railas behavior iss like that of a chameleon changing color many times in a spar of moment is that, immediately after Kibaki announced from State House that he was the President, Instead of Raila going to negotiate with his 5 Pentagon members to find solution, he saw an opportunity to sneak and dash with his son to meet with Kibaki privately at Kibakis house to do monetory dealings leaving out Pentagon Members behind in the cold not knowing what to do in the circumstances. It is not the first time Raila sneaked to such negotiations for purposes of stay-relevant-in-power deals. He takes the money to build his power capacity and let other people hijack the opportunity of leadership. This is why he was so confident Kibaki will handover power to him. It was again seen when Jesse Jackson came forward to meet with Uhuru to seal Raila relevancy of stay-in-power to maintain and sustain the unfinished business of GMO with thieving of public land. This means he knew all along something about what was cooking in the business of creating a situation for sell-out to remain in the deal of sharing political power at whatever cost with the Status Quo while people are left fighting for him that he won, and others are killing and destroying one another. Railas secret for power is too costly for Kenya and the Luos in general. It is a costly political reality of confused political greediness with unscrupulous Special Interest Companies of the world that are in the wake of the Scramble to Africa land; to re-colonize Africa and make its people slaves in the New unconstitutional and illegal expansionist would be Land owners.

I see a replica of my situation where Ruto and Sang seem to be tied up under a conspiracy theory for a toasted goose………..and my question to provide an eye opener therefore is, did Raila have a hand on the demise of Ruto and Sang shared with Kibaki…..??? Is Raila therefore, edging closer to negotiate power with Uhuru??? Was Raila aware about the killings and slaughtering of the Luos in Luo Nyanza ??? Is Wastegate an organized trigger to cause confusion??? Why did Raila reward Museveni with Migingo??? Why did Raila do nothing significant to save Migingo when he was in Power with Kibaki…..??? Why was Prof. Anyang Nyongo and team kept sneaking to meet with Russ Feingold and push me out of the scene??? Why is Russ Feingold with UN special envoy Mary Robinson who featured prominently on GMO are today pressurizing for Congo Government to cave in to negotiate with a terrorist group of M23 supported by Kagame who has been slamed with embargo sanction for supporting M23??? Why should the Congo people allow their land to be taken by Militia Rebel of M23 that belongs to Rwanda and who invaded, terrorized, killed many Congolese and raped their women and children, are they not human beings and don’t they have Human Rights value, respect and dignity???

I am able to unravel the puzzle and clearly spell out and state that, there is spanner at work to destroy Africa and the world from seing sanity and applying reasonable justice that are fair to all. It is the greed of selfish few who conspire to illegal ambush acquisition of big chunks of Peoples’ land, wealth and resources that are being taken illegally and unconstitutionally from the Peoples Government Trust hold in the unacceptable occupation with pretense to feeding the world through GMO.

People of the world, wake up! This is a war against livelihood and survival and it is influenced by a few corporate special business interest who are against goodwill of Peoples Government fair to all but, take advantage of the same to lean on political patronage to influence special interest through a Government takeover and destroy both Africa and the world through pushing it to the third world war…………..

Congo Government is about to make the worse mistake to negotiate with M23 and people of Congo must stand up to protect their livelihood and survival. Kenya too must wake up and think outside the box to save Kenya from Museveni with his collaborative network of unscrupulous Special Business interest. Peoples lives and security comes first on top of all else.

Connect the dots people, where there is smoke, there is fire……..acts of patronage is against the law, it poke holes of disunity in the Government, and it conflict with public interest fighting inside the Government. This is he same reason for Peoples Government shut-down and why every time there is a Government shutdown, Raila must find a reason to come to USA to sneer, and I am not sure this is the advice from his advisors. On the same vein, Prof. Anyang Nyongo is taking two months leave on his way to Havard University for GMO without consulting with the people. Where is the Democratic Rule of Law??? Why did both Raila and Prof. Nyongos plan coincide with US peoples government shut down??? Was there theories had something they were to benefit from it???

When Peoples Government shuts down, it is the majority disadvantaged who suffer. In this thread, most private sectors got support from the Government to excel. If they got a booster from the Government, so individuals with capacity to start-up business and create jobs but have no means to access establishment facilities are in many ways gets a booster from the Government to succeed. It is wrong and narrow minded for theorists of “Government does not create jobs” to engage and benefit from Government insentives but block People from accessing the same opportunities. I believe these are anarchists who seeks to overturn the Government by violence and by all unconstituted means where they want to confuse the society and peoples government, with noproper regulatory established system of order but create confusion for their selfish gains. This type of politics have seen unscrupulous special interest punch loopholes to acquire, manipulate and control power in the use of Government finances, and benefit from the accumulative public wealth, public facilities and utilities to monopolize and concentrate to channel and grant favors to themselves in their circle of friends of the few unscrupulous special business interest with a pretense that, Government does not create jobs……whereas, it is the same place Private Sector gained power to build self. Ofcourse, Private Sector did not come from space, but built their foundation through political Government lobby and support which in reality is the creation of jobs where they were able to expand and grow from employing more people.

Narrowing the capacity of a Government to be overtaken by a single group of business interest is naive and it is not peoples public interest. This Private Sector theory cannot replace the Government or balance the wheel of commercial organized strategic system that operate economic excellence and success.

Again, allegations that Government should get out of the way for Business Interest to Create Jobs and run Politics is illogical, inconsequential and is insane and does not have any substance.

Life must be of meaning and caring and sharing for mutually common good of all must take a center stage for peace, safety, security and protection of Livelihood and survival where all remain happy and satisfied with all the goods of the earth has in store for us.

Where is the truth and justification, and where is the world headed to…………..??? Can we all begin to start doing something small positively in our own special ways persistently and unite towards saving this grave situation……………..??? If it is singing, get down to sign in market places and in public places, if it is teaching or preaching do it and reach out like you care to save life from perishing and God will Bless us all.

Judy Miriga
Diaspora Spokesperson
Executive Director
Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc.,
USA
http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com

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Congo rebels expect ‘major breakthroughs’ in peace talks
Saturday October 19 2013

Kinshasa (AFP) – Rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) said on Saturday they are heading toward “major breakthroughs” with the Kinshasa government in peace talks in Uganda, possibly within hours.

Under Uganda’s mediation, “major breakthroughs are about to be obtained in Kampala since the heavy involvement of the international community in the dialogue” between the two sides, the M23 movement said in a statement.

It referred to the “remarkable presence” of US special envoy to the Great Lakes Russ Feingold and the UN special envoy Mary Robinson as well as Martin Kobler, the head of the UN mission to the DRC, and representatives of the European Union and African Union.

During talks on Friday, “the M23 made major concessions on its political demands in order to make possible the signing of the peace agreement in Kampala in the coming hours,” the group said.

“By this act, our movement wishes to demonstrate its determination to contribute to the rapid establishment of a lasting peace in the Democratic Republic of Congo,” it said.

No DRC government negotiator was immediately available for comment on the statement.

The M23 controls an area of around 700 square kilometres (270 square miles) in the east of the DRC, bordering Rwanda and Uganda.

The M23 was founded by former Tutsi rebels who were incorporated into the Congolese army under a 2009 peace deal.

Complaining the deal was never fully implemented, they mutinied in April 2012, turning their guns on their former comrades and launching the latest rebellion to ravage DR Congo’s mineral-rich and conflict-prone east.

The United Nations regularly accuses Rwanda and Uganda of supporting the M23, something both countries deny.

The negotiations in Kampala had reportedly stumbled over the question of an amnesty for the rebels and their reintegration in the army. Backed by the international community, the government in Kinshasa has said there will be no impunity for the main rebel leaders.

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Dr. Jimmy 24 minutes ago
The CIA isn’t doing its job in the Congo but I bet the pressure is on. Wall Street has untapped resources there.
Special Representative for Global Food Security Jonathan Shrier (Acting) participates in Hunger, Nutrition and Climate Justice Conference in Dublin
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Office of the Spokesperson
Washington, DC
April 16, 2013

On April 15 and16, Special Representative for Global Food Security Jonathan Shrier (Acting) participated in the “Hunger, Nutrition and Climate Justice” Conference, held at Dublin Castle and hosted by the Government of Ireland and the Mary Robinson Foundation.
The event brought together key policy makers and global leaders, civil society representatives, and people who face food insecurity and undernutrition to facilitate a dialogue with the goal of informing potential approaches to address the nexus of hunger, nutrition and climate change in the post-2015 Development Agenda.
President of Ireland H.E. Mr. Michael D. Higgins formally opened the conference, and speakers included former President of Ireland Mary Robinson and former Vice-President of the United States Al Gore. Special Representative Shrier (Acting) participated on the panel “From Learning to Leading – Informing the post-2015 Development Agenda,” where panelists offered different points of view on how the exchanges from the conference could be connected to the post-2015 agenda.
The U.S government works with partners to build the resilience of communities vulnerable to climate change, by helping partner countries develop strategies to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, transition to low-carbon futures and better cope with climate impacts. Feed the Future, the U.S. Government hunger and food security initiative, supports partner countries in developing their agriculture sector to spur economic growth that increases incomes and reduces hunger, poverty and undernutrition. These investments contribute to the health, stability, and resilience of developing countries, and support responsible management of natural resources in the face of a growing population and changing climate.
To learn more, please visit here.
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Monsanto should be tried for ‘ecocide, genocide’, says NGO
By Joycebabu on October 16, 2013 | From prokerala.com
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Monsanto should be tried for “ecocide and genocide” as its genetically modified cotton seeds are responsible for the poor cotton crop yields, deterioration in soil quality and suicides by farmers in India, said NGO Navdanya slamming the World Food Prize conferred on the US multinational Wednesday. Monsanto has attracted criticism from activists worldwide for being conferred the top food award. Navdanya, an Indian-based non-governmental organization which promotes biodiversity conservation, biodiversity, organic farming and the rights of farmers, said: “Contrary to what Monsanto proclaims, GMOs (genetically modified organisms) have led to a decline in yields and an increase in pesticide use, soil deterioration and farmer indebtedness and suicides. In India, most of the 284,000 farmers’ suicides are in the cotton belt – Monsanto controls 95 percent of the cotton seeds.” “In a just world, Monsanto should be tried for ecocide and genocide,” it said in a statement. “Yet on Oct 16, with the full support of powers most responsible for the state of hunger in the world, Monsanto is giving itself the World Food Prize! “We condemn this self congratulatory accolade – the GMO emperor has no clothes… We will not allow our Seed and Food Democracies to be hijacked by the current outmoded, reductionistic mechanistic paradigm,” it said.

It said the award comes on Oct 16, World Food Day, “a day when people all over the world are reminded of the shameful fact that over one billion people in the world are hungry and another billion are malnourished – this despite the fact that government institutions and multinational seed and food conglomerates have repeatedly over the decades declared to have the solution – one based on industrial agriculture, chemicals, GMOs and monocultures”. “FAO tells us that more than 70 percent of food comes from small farms and small farmers. Only 10 percent of the GMO corn and soya grown by Monsanto is eaten directly. (And this is because that 10 percent is not labelled and would be 0 percent if people had labelling and food freedom). The other 90 percent goes to feed cars and animals,” it said. “Let us honour all the Real Food Heroes who bring us real food by defending our food freedom- small farmers and gardeners, mothers and chefs, honest and real scientists. Let us celebrate those who save and exchange seed, preserve biodiversity and enrich our soils, and who through their actions are building food security all over the world and in communities everywhere with vibrant alternatives based on seed reform and food freedom.

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Activists Destroy Genetically-Modified Papaya Trees in Hawaii: Awesome or Too Far?
By EcoSalon on October 10, 2013 | From ecosalon.com

Public outrage over genetically-modified foods is growing by the day. But is it OK to cross the line into vandalism? Recent actions by anti-GMO activists in Hawaii force us to decide.

A family farm in Puna, Hawaii, suffered from a recent act of eco-activism where over 100 genetically-modified papaya trees were cut down by machete during the night.

“It’s hard to imagine anybody putting that much effort into doing something like that. It means somebody has to have passionate reason,” said Delan Perry, vice president of the Hawaii Papaya Industry Association.

Genetically-modified (GM) papaya trees were introduced to the region to protect against ringspot virus. In 1992, the virus became widespread, infecting thousand of papaya trees by killing the plants leaves. As a result, the virus cost farmers millions of dollars in losses. The genetically-modified papayas, which are planted on the majority of farms in Puna, Hawaii, are resistant to the dangerous ringspot virus. And it’s estimated that the genetically-modified seed has saved Hawaii’s papaya industry over $11 million.

Puna is the center of Hawaii’s commercial papaya industry, and this incident of eco-activism wasn’t the first of its kind. In 2011, the same farm was attacked, with 3,000 genetically-modified papaya trees cut down over 10 acres. And only a year before 8,500 GM papaya trees were destroyed.

Should Genetically Modified Foods Be Destroyed?

There is a clear divide between consumers who support organic farming and those who support GMOs. Genetically-modified crops often tote reduced pesticide use, but reports show GMOs often require extra chemicals to combat weeds. Even more so, the untested effects of GMOs raise enormous concerns, and consumers are still fighting for the right to know through GMO labeling.

At first, those of us who oppose genetically-modified foods might cheer at this valiant act of civil disobedience. Yet, it quickly becomes apparent that each act of vandalism negatively impacts farmers who are already struggling to hold on to their land. The most recent attack on the genetically-modified papaya farm in Puna cost the family over $3,000 in lost crops.

“These farmers are working really, really hard to support their families,” says regional property owner Peter Houle. “They’ve done nothing wrong and they feel violated.”

If papaya farmers are only protecting planting genetically-modified seeds against the ringspot virus by , should they be punished in this way?
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Imagine – no extreme poverty. It’s possible by 2030, says report.

By Eric Pfeiffer, Yahoo News 8 hours ago

Two recent reports say that extreme poverty could be effectively eliminated by 2030 (AP)

More than a billion people around the world still exist in extreme poverty, which is defined by living on less than $1.25 a day. The good news is that number dropped by half from 1990 through 2010. And a new report says eliminating extreme poverty altogether is “within reach” by 2030.

The report was produced by the Brookings Institution, which says that a combination of increased shared consumption and improving global distribution of resources have dramatically reduced the poverty rate over the past 23 years but that “both factors are needed simultaneously,” to bring the total percentage of those living below the $1.25 rate to 3 percent or less.

The report gained prominence on Friday when Bill Gates tweeted about it in a message to his 13 million plus followers:

What are the prospects of ending extreme poverty? This interactive chart shows how far we’ve come since 1990: http://t.co/yeOPEtPv2s

— Bill Gates (@BillGates) October 18, 2013

“Over the past twenty years global poverty reduction was made possible by a consistently large mass of people lining up behind the poverty line each year, and sufficient consumption growth to carry many of these individuals across the threshold,” the report explains.

According to the report, there are more people living around the $1.25 mark “than at any other consumption level in the world.” Amongst the world’s billion people living in extreme poverty, a report released this month by the World Bank Group says that 400 million of them are children .

However, the World Bank Group report also had good news that aligns with the findings of Brookings, stating that 750 million less people live in extreme poverty today compared to 1981.

“We need to act urgently, and with a sharpened focus, to implement effective policies in places where poverty remains entrenched, particularly rural areas,” Jaime Saavedra, the World Bank Acting Vice President of Poverty Reduction and Economic Management, said in a statement. The Governors of the World Bank Group have also endorsed the goal of ending extreme poverty by 2030.

Perhaps not surprisingly, China and India have been at the forefront of extreme poverty reduction over the past two decades. The Brookings report says that China has now reduced the number of its citizens living in extreme poverty into the single digits and that going forward “the baton has been passed to India.”

From there, Brookings says sub-Saharan African faces the largest extreme poverty gap.

So, what stands in the way of fully eliminating this most extreme form of poverty?

Brookings says there are two major factors as they look ahead to 2030. First, that as countries like China make progress on poverty, they will become satisfied with the progress already made and will lack incentives to complete the job. And secondly, that in the most greatly affected regions of the world, populations of extreme poverty will begin to condense, making it all the more challenging to see economic improvements.

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Conservative groups target U.S. Republicans who voted to end shutdown
By Gabriel Debenedetti
By Gabriel Debenedetti

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Groups aligned with the Tea Party movement are targeting two Republican U.S. senators who backed a bipartisan budget plan on Thursday, vowing to support their challengers in Republican primaries before congressional elections in 2014.

The plan to reopen the federal government and increase the nation’s borrowing authority ended a 16-day government shutdown that conservatives backed in an unsuccessful attempt to weaken Democratic President Barack Obama’s healthcare overhaul.

Hours after Congress passed the measure, the Club for Growth and the Senate Conservatives Fund endorsed Chris McDaniel, the Tea Party Republican from Mississippi who is running for the seat occupied by Senator Thad Cochran.

“Chris McDaniel is a constitutional conservative who will fight to stop Obamacare, balance the budget, and get America working again, the Senate Conservatives Fund statement said.

Cochran was among 27 Senate Republicans to support the plan to end the shutdown. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky Republican who helped to craft the deal, faced a similar backlash on Friday.

McConnell’s primary opponent, Tea Party candidate Matt Bevin, was endorsed by the Senate Conservatives Fund, a group founded by former South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint, a leading voice of the Tea Party.

The movement swept a wave of right wing lawmakers to Capitol Hill in 2010 and helped Republicans regain the House of Representatives. Groups like Club for Growth donated heavily to a slate of successful candidates during that election cycle.

Club for Growth – whose influence over dozens of the most conservative members of Congress is such that its pronouncements have effectively killed some budget proposals – already had targeted Republican Representative Mike Simpson, the only one of Idaho’s four members of Congress to vote for the bill that ended the shutdown.

Club for Growth is backing Tea Party Republican Bryan Smith as a more conservative alternative to Simpson. Smith also has been endorsed by FreedomWorks, a conservative group whose chief executive, Matt Kibbe, predicted on Friday that Tea Party conservatives’ frustration with moderate Republicans could lead a split of the Republican Party.

Taken together, the endorsements signal that the battle over Obamacare – and far-right conservatives’ push to put more of their candidates in Congress with an eye toward killing the Affordable Care Act – is far from over.

Club for Growth and the Senate Conservatives Fund are major contributors to the campaigns of several staunch conservatives. The Center for Responsive Politics says they are the two largest donors to Senator Ted Cruz, the Texas Republican whose 21-hour floor speech in September helped set the stage for the shutdown fight over the health reform law.

Cochran, 75, has been in office since 1978 and has not officially announced that he is running for re-election in 2014.

In endorsing McDaniel, Club for Growth’s political action committee (PAC) said in a statement, “If Cochran runs for re-election, he will likely have the entire Republican establishment behind him – all the more reason that Senator McDaniel will need the strong support of the Club’s PAC.”

McCONNELL’s CHALLENGERS

McConnell, who has been in office since 1984 and has clashed with Cruz, will face a two-pronged challenge next year.

Well-funded Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes, Kentucky’s secretary of state, is running for McConnell’s seat. But before he can face her, McConnell has to defeat Bevin in the Republican primary.

In backing Bevin, the Senate Conservatives Fund cited various votes by McConnell to fund the government, which the group equated to funding Obama’s health care law.

McConnell’s campaign mocked the SCF’s endorsement of Bevin.

“Matt Bevin now has the dubious honor of standing with a self-serving D.C. fundraising group that made its name by recruiting and promoting unelectable candidates that ensured Barack Obama a majority in the Senate,” McConnell spokeswoman Allison Moore said in a statement.

“They clearly care less about Kentuckians than they do about their reputation for supporting laughably bad candidates,” Moore added.

DeMint, the Senate Conservative Fund’s founder, emphasized the ongoing efforts to pressure moderate Republicans on Friday with an editorial in the Wall Street Journal headlined, “We Won’t Back Down on Obamacare.”

In an interview on Thursday, Club for Growth president Chris Chocola, a former Indiana congressman, pledged to endorse more candidates, noting that the shutdown and surrounding debates “may have defined our opportunities a little bit better.”

Heritage Action spokesman Dan Holler also said his group would keep fighting the health reform law, in part by helping the opponents of Democrats in conservative states, such as Senators Mark Pryor of Arkansas and Kay Hagan of North Carolina.

(Editing by David Lindsey and Doina Chiacu)

The geography of poverty, disasters and climate extremes in 2030

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From: Yona Maro

This report examines the relationship between disasters and poverty.

Key messages:

• Extreme weather linked to climate change is increasing and will likely cause more disasters. Such disasters, especially those linked to drought, can be the most important cause of impoverishment, cancelling progress on poverty reduction.

• Up to 325 million extremely poor people will be living in the 49 most hazard-prone countries in 2030, the majority in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.

• The 11 countries most at risk of disaster induced poverty are Bangladesh, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, South Sudan, Sudan and Uganda.

• Disaster risk management should be a key component of poverty reduction efforts, focusing on protecting livelihoods as well as saving lives. There is a need to identify and then act where the poor and disaster risks are most concentrated.

• The post-2015 development goals must include targets on disasters and climate change, recognising the threat they pose to the headline goal of eradicating extreme poverty by 2030.

Link:
http://www.odi.org.uk/sites/odi.org.uk/files/odi-assets/publications-opinion-files/8633.pdf

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The Third Annual Conference on Climate Change and Development in Africa (CCDA-III) will be held in Addis Ababa from 21 – 23 October, 2013

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From: News Release – African Press Organization (APO)

Integrated African Strategy on Meteorology supports transformative development

The Third Annual Conference on Climate Change and Development in Africa (CCDA-III) will be held in Addis Ababa from 21 – 23 October, 2013

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, October 17, 2013/ — The need for strong weather and climate services to reduce vulnerability and promote sustainable development will be addressed by the Third Annual Conference on Climate Change and Development in Africa (CCDA-III) (http://www.climdev-africa.org/ccda3) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from 21 – 23 October, 2013.

Logo: http://www.photos.apo-opa.com/plog-content/images/apo/logos/amcomet.jpg

Organized by the African Climate Policy Centre (ACPC), under the auspices of the Climate for Development in Africa (ClimDev-Africa) Programme, the conference’s theme is Africa on the rise: can the opportunities from climate change spring the continent to transformative development?

The African Union and the World Meteorological Organization will co-host a side event that will identify current gaps and future needs in the provision of weather and climate services. It will also discuss a range of potential solutions through the implementation of the Integrated African Strategy on Meteorology (Weather and Climate Services), that can positively impact the lives and livelihoods of African communities.

The side event will further discuss the need for African political leadership and cooperation to strengthen and mainstream weather and climate services into the decision-making and development planning process in key sectors such as agriculture, water resources and transport.

The African continent’s weak adaptive capacity increases its exposure to climate change and limits its ability to benefit from advances in climate science. Many National Meteorological and Hydrological Services have limited resources.

The African Ministerial Conference on Meteorology (AMCOMET) (http://www.wmo.int/amcomet) provides political support to strengthen national meteorological services to enable them to perform their mandate and thus contribute to transformative development in Africa.

The Integrated African Strategy on Meteorology developed under AMCOMET and endorsed by the African Union, positions weather and climate services as essential components in poverty alleviation, disaster risk management and sustainable development efforts. The Strategy is a key component in the implementation of the Global Framework for Climate Service (GFCS) (http://gfcs-climate.org) in Africa to increase the provision of user-driven climate services, especially in the priority areas of food security, water management, disaster risk reduction and health.

Distributed by APO (African Press Organization) on behalf of the African Ministerial Conference on Meteorology (AMCOMET).

MEDIA contact: Josiane Uwantege/ JUwantege@wmo.int or phone: +41 78 664 41 82

Notes to Editors: WMO Assistant Secretary-General Elena Manaenkova, will chair the side event. Panelists include representatives from the African Union Commission, African Development Bank, and ACPC. Hon Saviour Kasukuwere MP, Zimbabwe Minister of Environment, Water and Climate is expected to give the welcome remarks. Give date, venue, time of side event

Background:

AMCOMET: The African Ministerial Conference on Meteorology (AMCOMET) (http://www.wmo.int/amcomet) was initiated in response to major challenges related to the delivery of weather and climate services in Africa. It is a permanent forum where African ministers in charge of meteorology convene every two years to provide political leadership and policy direction and advocacy in matters related to the development of meteorology and its applications, as well as its contribution to socio-economic development in Africa. AMCOMET was established in April 2010 during the First Conference of Ministers Responsible for Meteorology in Africa.

For more information, visit:

• http://www.wmo.int/amcomet
• http://africaclimateconference.org
• http://www.wmo.int
• http://www.gfcs-climate.org

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African Ministerial Conference on Meteorology (AMCOMET)

With GM you cannot fire …………Be Warned …….!!!

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From: Judy Miriga

Afwande,

I absolutely appreciate Science and Technology and I value innovation and inventions that has brought the use of new technology in modifying and making modern way of life be appreciated by many and which is not the real challenge to changing biological and mechanism of mixing and confusing gene of life, theories and tests that have failed over the years; which is the bone of contention I don’t agree with.

Science and Technology equipments are innovations that have passed their test of time and are made perfect through the required discipline observance and the International standards put for their qualification. But, I don’t want to take chances with an incompetent unqualified pilot the fear of flying me up in the air will be questioned; someone who most definitely will either crash on take off, or up in the air or even upon landing.

This is what I disqualify and dispute. That things are not done the right way the reason for Africa failing from competing with the rest of the world at par. That when the test has proved the science of GM is making people impotent and cannot fire…………Why still go for it??? So in my argument that, Nature and The Production Unit at South of HUMAN industrial are is in danger …………and biological science is yet to perfect their invention of how man and nature was created…….. and this is a grave situation challenging Gods purpose for creation; because at the end of the day, science have not advanced innovation of human production to its perfection……but we know how to protect and preserve the Nature……………..Why allow a failed theories that will destroy Nature and Why shouldn’t we not protect our Human Rights against crime, violation and abuse????

Judy Miriga
Diaspora Spokesperson
Executive Director
Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc.,
USA
http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com

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Sent: Monday, October 14, 2013 12:27 PM
Subject: With GM you cannot fire …………Be Warned …….!!!

Judy, When you use technology to communicate, you don’t think about God. When you flew by plane to the USA, you didn’t think about God. When you use washers n dryers in your basement, you don’t think about God. When Afwande challenges your ignorance about GM you rush to God. God never made computers, man did through modifying those things which God created, same to all iphones et al. So why do you jump when GM is mentioned? Were all these things created by same God who gave human beings the knowledge to modify them for their own comfort? Sorry I lost you Afwande!

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From: Judy Miriga
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 10:01:58 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: With GM you cannot fire …………Be Warned …….!!!

Afwande,

God’s work was made perfect. Haina makosa. Overhauling Gods’ workmanship through biological gene transfer is to challenge God, ambayo ni kutoa Mungu makosa.

Science in any form, biological, chemistry or physics go through many stages to produce good result and thus qualify for good bill. For it to be accepted for consumption, it has to pass the test of excellence …….which God perfected at the time of creation and is the reason why we are all alive through preserving, protecting and sustained Nature over the years. Changing it require a lot of wisdom, knowledge and understanding, discipline, value, focus, respect, dignity to bring about the required skills and talent ………..the type which current crops of African politician leaders dont have………

This is why in scientific study, when you try something and fail, from public protest which has experience adverse bad effect, you don’t go on with moving the reject from US to Africa for example. The failed experiments must be completely done with and trashed…………because it has failed the test and is unfit for human consumption………..But if you go on with what is rendered unfit for human consumption, you shall be doing worse damage on purpose and knowingly and this behavior is treated as a crime against humanity.

Judy Miriga
Diaspora Spokesperson
Executive Director
Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc.,
USA
http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com/

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From: “anyumba462@ . . . ”
To: Judy Miriga
Sent: Monday, October 14, 2013 11:25 AM
Subject: With GM you cannot fire …………Be Warned …….!!!

Stop!

Do we accept test tube babies? Judy the Scientists are using genes God created “genesis” to produce better species. To modify is not to change perse! It is to make the same thing more suitable for the purpose at hand!

Afwande!

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From: Judy Miriga
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 07:57:35 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: With GM you cannot fire …………Be Warned …….!!!

Afwande,

Ndugu yangu Afwande, modification in simple terms is to change something from its original form. To qualify it, you can either modifying change from good to bad or bad to good. When you change the organism of God given gene of different species, you get system mechanism of both disorganized and disoriented species from that of its origin and that consequently results in complete change of appearance, character, behavior and circumstances; the reason for species getting confused from the change of metamorphosis that finally occurs from the change………Shall we therefore credit the workmanship of Scientist that are in the process of making their theories perfect or shall we go with that of God………Well, here is where we are tampering with God’s creation which he had made perfect upon creation. This is where science comes to crossroads with that of Gods perfect creation and instead it is not harmonizing, improving or making excellent to sustain and make life better for common good of all. This is where science must re-think itself to get in line to do good than bad.

Remember God’s commandment of Love and consider why God gave Satan its democratic rights to live on earth but with conditions to respect, value honor an dignify Creation or face consequences…………..

The Price of Sin is death and destruction……………But God is faithful, He will keep His promise to mankind and will never forsake us……..and that, in the midst of all these, our prayer in wisdom shall be that God should not destroy the world for the sin of few but have Mercy upon us and help us to overcome trial and temptations of the wicked and evil ones and guide our steps to safety and greener pastures…………………..

Cheers !!!

Judy Miriga
Diaspora Spokesperson
Executive Director
Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc.,
USA
http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com/

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From: “anyumba462@ . . . ”
Sent: Monday, October 14, 2013 9:22 AM
Subject: With GM you cannot fire …………Be Warned …….!!!

Judy Miriga! You are so naïve and nausetingly ignorant. What do you know about genetic modification? Genetic revolution is ubiquitous to mankind. Why do you think there are no black goats, sheep, or black camels in the desert? That is genetic modification. Why does you mother keep the biggest cockreel in the homestead to mate with chicken? That is genetic modification. Why did we have “Jagam” before marriage? Oooof! People just don’t know what they are talking about. GM has been practised in its subtle forms for aeons Afwande! Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile

From: Judy Miriga
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 07:08:46 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: With GM you cannot fire …………Be Warned …….!!!

Good People,

With Genetically modified food, ok inyal chiwo mach……..you cannot fire……..that is why former PM is campaigning to transfer GM from US to Kenya and the whole of Africa. You must say big NO NO NO NO…………….Africa Must Fire………….and GM is an enemy of Nature…………It is also a Crime against Humanity………..!!!!

Those who have taken GM foods or work in the farm of GM long enough have their body system function and behavior changed. Many even begin to have sex with animals because their urge is transformed……..

Because the world has rejected Genetically food, its theorists are now looking for a damping site in Africa because it is another reason for Africas Land Grabbing. This is the unfinished business that has kept former PM Raila on his toes; which is why, he frequent visits to US with different groups of Governors……………..!!!

Is this the Emerging Markets Kenya and Africa look for??? The new Agricultural way of doing farm business??? To go for GM that make Africans stop firing??? Is this it??? What is wrong with former PM of Kenya???

Judy Miriga
Diaspora Spokesperson
Executive Director
Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc.,
USA
http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com/

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Health and Environmental Consequences of Genetically-Modified …
www.slideserve.com/fuller/health-and- environmental… Cached

… and to pass on these genes to the next generation Rats GM to … Health and environmental risks of food … is a Genetically Modified (GM) Food?.
Genetically modified foods: potential human health effects …
www.owenfoundation.com/Health_Science/ Pusztai/GM/GMHuman… Cached

The conclusion of the ENVIRON panel that feeding rats on GM … GM crop is easily measured. There are now … in genetically modified novel foods. Food …
Cancer row over GM foods as French study claims it did THIS …
www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article- 2205509/Cancer…

Cancer row over GM foods as study says it did THIS to rats… and can cause organ damage and early death in humans. French team claim bestselling brand of GM corn …
Negative Impacts of genetically modified (GM) Foods on Human …
intentblog.com/negative-impacts- genetically-modified-gm… Cached

Negative Impacts of genetically modified (GM) Foods on Human and Animal Health and the Environment
The Problems Of Biotechnology – GM Foods – Science 2.0
www.science20.com/…/problems_ biotechnology_gm_foods-94650 Cached

In my previous article, the fundamental equivalence of foods was discussed recognizing that there is a difference in assessing problems with the food, versus problems …GM … are many health risks and huge environmental effects …
Genetically Modified (GM) Food, Genetically Modified …
www.raw-wisdom.com/50harmful Cached

Genetically modified GM food, … pollution would cause so much vast environmental harm. Now nearly 1/3 rd of all species are … male rats were fed GM …

Simple “Give and Take” Economic Theories and Concepts

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From: Judy Miriga

Good People,

Simple “Give and Take” Economic Theories and Concepts

In Economics, the commercial balance or net exports of a country varies between the monetary value of exports and imports on the total output of economic GDP report over a certain period, measured in the currency of that economy…….in the relationship between a nation’s imports and exports.

The balance of trade is sometimes divided into both goods and services recorded as factsheet for the GDP (Gross Domestic Product.

Measuring the balance of trade can be problematic where actual supporting information of products are missing and does not reflect true recording of collection of data.

The discipline within the social sciences harmonizes smooth business exchange capacity of cooperation from the public sector to the Political negotiations that facilitates Government Management implementation, which having been undertaken between the international relations according to the constitutional order, the economy is fed positively both sides of the negotiating table, and in the course of times, the economy is provided with a booster to reinforce diversity, innovation, growth and expansion.

For any sustained and progressive business success that commands huge sums of money, there is need for a wider consultative professional input with a good comprehensive organizational development plan for a balanced economic standing. This is when the Government system is able to function and fizzles down to form automation of a revolving supply and demand exchange process of goods and services and these can only be successful under a regulated policy guideline by a Democratic Governing system in the respective Government service departments where Finance department is mostly crucial. Consequently, a Budget cannot be completed without Finance Department following tenets of the constitutional order of public mandate.

Challenges:

A functioning good Democratic Government system produces good Development agenda that provide a balanced opportunity favorable to all and that are balanced and are able to produce good results.The system that works well produces good result that improves social welfare in a short period of time and is able to transform economic progress, social stability with political principle guidelines that are simple, easy to understand and are made available with ease to all without any discrimination.

An imbalances of trade emerges when there are abuses or under-table deals of natural resources, illegal land usage and where local farmers are stolen from their cattles or shortchanged in cash crops sale that are corruptly exported in exchange for money put in politically correct network (money dipped in politicians pockets); who through graft and impunity, facilitate the bilateral business where public interest are under-cut and short-changed without value for their value.

In this case, no clear records are documented in the Government Exchequer ……. In otherwords, exchange of public goods in Trading transaction are supplemented, for example, with Blood Diamond and Gold in Congo, Titanium from Kwale, Pirating, Poaching, offshoring, currency and money laundering, exportation of sand to China, fish and water from Migingo and where human rights are violated and abused etc., the irregularities practices in Port Shipping transactions charcols and wood from the forests with the evasion of paying taxes to the Government are such processes that creates the imbalances and where GDP recorded are not justified nor are they realistic.

It is here where Peoples Government is blocked, short-changed or denied to provide opportunities to benefit the people, and where a network of business community instead shadow the Government function-ability by the engineered political machinery of conflict of interest, becomes a problem and in the long run, business community have power and control over the People Government from rendering services fairly to the people. In other instances, tender processes are made so complex earmarked for Special Interest, and Government structures for public service delivery is made so opaque, with job creation and business inequity-gap growing wider, while corruption and impunity are given lifespan to continue to thrive endlessly.

Politicians without discipline fail to observe the law.They take public subsidy as personal, which then ‘disappears’ into private and personal accounts without trace……..private and individual sector corruption find its way into public amenities, bankrupt public co-operation into private and personal transfer takeover thus, stripping off public assets and this is entirely corruption with impunity.

For private financial equity taking control of such for example, Central Bank Services to benefit itself in the largest source of profit, is to invest in a liquid firm with good public assets, avoid paying taxes, take management service fees at commercial rates, drain it, indebt it and then exit leaving a weaker and unstable Central Bank Institution that must be sustained and stabilized by public taxpayer finances to shoulder the expenses in ways.

Corruption, impunity with failed governance have contributed to extreme poverty, Scramble to Africas’ Land Grabbing, genocide with atrocities and are therefore costing Africa billions that are unaccounted for and are the greatest obstacle to Africas development with foreign direct investment sustained Partnership needed to improve good standing cooperation with meeting challenges at the International Market Place favorably along with the rest of the world.

Accountability and Transparency:

The balance of payment records clearly must show, the international flow of goods and services and other net income received from foreign countries. The import and export of goods and services, income received from investments, payments for debt service and private and public net remittance and transfers must be tabulated on record in the Current Account.

The capital account must record the international transactions of financial asset with liquidation flows. There must be clear statement for direct foreign private investments, foreign loan received from private banks, the grants and loans received from foreign governments, the grants and loans received from international, multilateral institutions like World Bank are included in the capital account.

The value of visible imports must equal to the value of visible exports. This shows the position of balance of trade. Gross domestic product (GDP) is the market value of all officially recognized final goods and services produced within a country in a given period of time. Therefore, GDP per capita is not a measure of personal income …….. say if a few group of people are wealthy, that does not determine the wealth of the Nation. It is as a matter of fact, the size of our debt compared to our income worth from business transaction exchange that form GDP value……… and in the case of corruption taking tall order, the country’s GDP is ripped off by the Special Interest network and the Nations value goes down.

In other words, all goods and services must correspond to the value of the total product and Supply and Demand, must equal to people’s total Income and expenditures in capacity of buying things against things sold to the people. This is what determines the principle of GDP………..

Cash received by the Government must be accounted for and clearly made to balance with items for exchange bilaterally where, it must show the net outflow of foreign reserve. The errors and omissions adjusted and the statistical discrepancies documented. A country receives international cash reserve in the following forms:-

i. Hard currency in the foreign currency received has time and again found its way in the foreign bank account of individual politicians.

ii. Gold, Diamond, Titanium, oil, fish, water, Agricultural produce, and land to include poaching, have fetched billions of dollars to Corporate Special Business Interest network, that are untaxed but instead of bringing value, it brought pain and suffering to Africa with backwardness failing development progressiveness instead.

iii. The deposit with International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank foreign exchange on loans failed to capture poverty elimination but instead enriched politically correct network corruptly.

iv. Innovation, Science and Technology

v. Security

Government Run through Proxy of Special Interest:

Special Business Interest fight proxy war for control of the Government against the people.Corrupt politicians engage in conflict of interest whereby public interest is undermined, swopped and are replaced by Special Interest translating public mandate Government service delivery to special interest instead.A proxy server from public service delivery is then made to render Government Services prioritizing Network of Corporate Business Interest, where under conflict of interest; politicians make uncensored deals with the Government employees substitute to exploit people’s vulnerability and security.

Under Proxy politics, public security and mandate are endangered, undermined and are replaced by those of special interest Ally correctness who confederate Government services to network of a small group of selfish greedy special interest. The proxy political arrangement engage in uncensored, unregulated illegal and corrupt business undertaking through evasion of taxes, segregation, marginalization, manipulation, intimidation and threats; engage in illegal occupation of land, illegal mining, illegal fishing, illegal use of the water tower and shipments, illegal agriculture and with secret drug manufacture; free importation, unchecked transportation, illegal possession and use of public wealth, incorrect use and distribution of certain public resources and substances without going through any concrete legislative regulated government measures.

Subsequently, in the event where People’s Government is compromised, it is held hostage anytime Special Interest is challenged in ways and means.Since they have created autonomy of power by proxy, they have made the Government a Special Interest preserve where, when it comes to matters of “The Budget” it is their way or the highway………In other words, the budget is made according the Special Interest prescribed proposal and not according to public mandate.Special Interest will fight tooth and nail to have their way ……..hoarding and taking more than they need from the Government……..(hoarding is a behavior associated with lack of organization and disorder to health risks, that impaired good functioning of a system and load economic burden that ultimately causes adverse effects on the stability of a Nation, the Community, friends, family members and consequently affects the whole world). and thereby deny fundamental basic rights of people to a point people would rather die and extinct than their comfort zone of ho
arding is tampered with or reasonably have Government functionability shared for common good of all.

Special Interest Control of the Government Institution:

A Nation is said to be Sovereign when it honors, values and respect principles of good Democratic Rule of Law and where service to people is the priority placed top on the agenda of governance.

In the same way, God gave man freedom, dominion, Institution of marriage and possession to own and control their bodies and commanded them to love, protect, preserve and multiply to replenish and subdue the earth.

Recognizing that, the people formed our government in democratic process by design to function and serve peoples interest in consultation, exchange and in mutual sharing, and by the people, people own the Government.The three elements thus, dominion, Institution and possession appear outstandingly very clear, the fundamentals that which constitute the very definition of sovereignty.

To undercut it by special interest proxy to serve a small minority of group and taking away survival and livelihood of many is in the same vein committing a serious crime an abomination of violation and abuse of human rights to live a just, peaceful, honorable and dignified life.Something must change or all are destined to lost leaving majority people more vulnerable, Susceptible and skeptical to living a life that are of meaning.

In Conclusion:

We cannot throw our hands up in despair and quit or we keep voicing our disapproval but fight to eliminate Corruption starting at the top where the whole of Africa is rife with corruption.

A sense of awareness demands that people must begin to demand their rights of good governance with concerted pressure from both the UN, World Bank and IMF demanding report; because, if policy are breached a culture of impunity spreads pretty quickly and peace is threatened, a position we have all found ourselves today.

If Africa is to be saved from this infection, the endemic presence of corruption and impunity must be dealt with by all people of the world united and the community supported to work to improve their lives by ways and means to create jobs and improve their Social Welfare Organization through Community Partnership Development Agenda.

Judy Miriga
Diaspora Spokesperson
Executive Director
Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc.,
USA
http://socioecnomicforum50.blogspot.com

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YAHWEH [ THE MAGIC BAND INTERNATIONAL ]

Published on Sep 20, 2013
PRAISE THE LORD

Voice of America (Washington, DC)
Africa: Survey Lists 55 Billionaires in Africa
By Peter Cox, 10 October 2013

Johannesburg — There are at least 55 billionaires on the African continent. That’s according to the Africa’s Richest survey from Venture Africa, an Africa-based business magazine.

There are 10 countries represented on the list, with Nigeria leading the way with 20 billionaires, South Africa with nine and Egypt with eight.

The combined wealth of Africa’s 55 billionaires is $143.88 billion, and the average wealth is $2.6 billion.

The richest man on the list is Aliko Dangote, whose investments in manufacturing three decades ago have grown into a $20.2 billion net worth. He is followed by South African investor Allan Gray and Nigerian oil and telecom businessman Mike Adenuga.

Of Nigeria’s billionaires, 13 have significant or total investments in the oil business, and mining is a sector tapped by many on the list across the continent.

The Venture Africa survey has more than triple the number of billionaires reported by previous lists. Forbes Magazine noted only 16 billionaires in Africa in late 2012.

Venture Africa’s Publisher Chi Chi Okonjo said his magazine’s Nigerian and South African base help with having more information than some lists – which is why his survey is more comprehensive.

“We know, because we have people on ground, some of these people are actually people we know personally,” Okonjo explained. “So we know their assets… .That’s the difference… .You really need to be on ground to know what’s happening. So we’re able to provide much more detailed information.”

His editorial staff calculated wealth through publicly held shares, privately held companies, investment bankers, financial analysts and other financial barometers.

Okonjo said Africans also tend to be quiet about their wealth.

“Wealth is still somewhat taboo in Africa. People prefer discuss what they are doing for their communities rather than how much money they have. It’s just a cultural thing,” he noted. “So people don’t like to discuss how much money they have or how much they’ve amassed.”