Tanzania’s gas boom that never was – when local hopes are dashed by global realities: A flashy new administrative office opened in Mtwara in 2013 to serve vocational training centres throughout southern Tanzania. Grahamcole Rising international commodity prices can shape or reshape the fortunes of places. When large mining and oil and gas prospectors suddenly …
Lamine Diack made Africa visible in global sport, but dashed hopes: Lamine Diack during the 15th IAAF World Athletics Championships, Beijing 2015. Photo by Lintao Zhang/Getty Images for IAAF Lamine Diack, former president of the International Association of Athletics Federations, died in Dakar, Senegal, on 2 December, aged 88. He was allowed to return to …
Egypt’s Sisi dashed his country’s hopes – and what support he has is eroding: “Will you be voting for Sisi?” I asked a waiter in St John’s Wood, London as he brought me a steaming bowl of Kosheri, an Egyptian street food. He nodded apathetically, shrugging his shoulders, and replied “Who else is there?” The …
Millennials’ home ownership hopes dashed by a broken housing market: Shutterstock. Speaking to the Conservative Party conference in September 2017, the UK prime minister, Theresa May, gave a stark assessment of the UK housing market which made for depressing listening for many young people: “For many the chance of getting onto the housing ladder has …
South Africa in the news: Guptas’ last hope for bank services in SA dashed: Johannesburg – Companies controlled by the Guptas lost a court bid to prevent Bank of Baroda from shutting their accounts, which would leave the politically connected family without banking services in South Africa from the end of this month. Judge Hans …