I’m keeping a list of things I need to blog, and I’ll get there, I promise. In the interim, a newsflash from the other side of the continent, where ethnic violence in a small town in Ghana is worrying the country. Ghana’s not really a place you think about as prone to ethnic violence…then again, whose early warning system predicted the Kenyan clashes this year? I can’t think of one. (But if you can, tell me.)
Via the BBC:
There are fears that a long-standing chieftaincy dispute between two ethnic groups, the Kusasi and the Mamprusi, is spiralling out of control despite a heavy military presence and a dusk-to-dawn curfew which has been in place since the beginning of the year.
To up the ante a bit on this, Ghana’s got national elections at the end of this year. Ethnic violence…politics…hasn’t really been a good combination anywhere in the world, even when the former is ‘small scale.’
