Archive for July 2016

Tanzania is high on helium. Vast reserves of the gas have just been found beneath the Rift Valley in east Africa. Helium is used in brain scanners and other medical and scientific devices. So scarce had natural deposits worldwide become that the British Medical Association asked for helium to be priced out of the children’s…

The national carrier Air Zimbabwe’s flight left Victoria Falls an hour early because, the ground staff said, they had to use a slower plane. Quite why they couldn’t just arrive in Harare an hour later was not explained. All the passengers booked to travel at the weekend could not be reached by phone and the…

  A neighbour down the road says he has never been as demoralised as he is now but nor has he been crossing his fingers as much as he does every day that an end might finally be in sight. The difference this time is there’s no money and the social media is ever more…