144 carats of good news – Angola’s first public diamond auction ever

by Rashmee

Posted on February 1, 2019


As an indefatigable good news prospector, I offer you this nugget: Angola is auctioning a …

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Angola, Zimbabwe, now South Africa? Africa’s new mania for orderly change

by Rashmee

Posted on February 12, 2018


Today’s ANC meeting in South Africa is simply remarkable. It illustrates the mania for orderly …

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Charlottesville spoofs not enough. Western media knows its double standard, so why not stop?

by Rashmee

Posted on August 18, 2017


Every now and then, some western media outlet decides to have a bit of fun …

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‘It’s as if Trump is the don and he only trusts his close family members’

by Rashmee

Posted on April 7, 2017


One can only hope Thomas Mann, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, is fine …

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A president, his daughter & business success in a country whose name starts with ‘A’

by Rashmee

Posted on January 7, 2017


So what do you know about Angola? Most people will know only the following: that …

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Rashmee has lived and worked in several countries in the past decade, including Afghanistan, India, Haiti, Tunisia, the UAE, US and UK