Zimbabwe’s increasingly totalitarian government on Wednesday shut down access to messaging service WhatsApp for the morning, but it appeared to be working in the afternoon after outrage swept Zimbabwe’s internet users. Similar clampdowns on internet access during anti-government protests have occurred in in Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2015, and Uganda earlier […]

{Congo, one of the poorest nations on Earth, offered former President Bill Clinton a speaking fee of $650,000–a sum equal to annual per-capita income of 2,813 Congolese. Indeed, the International Monetary Fund ranks the Democratic Republic of the Congo dead last in its global income rankings. What did it expect in return for its investment?} […]