What is the current World Briefing that needs to be told about Zimbabwe, Africa?”
Lord Paul Condon was appointed by the International Cricket Council in June 2000 to lead cricket’s Anti-Corruption Unit (the ACU), an independent body supported by a US$4 million budget to cover the period up to the 2003 ICC Cricket World Cup. The Unit has acted decisively and thoroughly in its fight to rid cricket of malpractice and corruption. All 24 of the recommendations identified in its major interim report of April 2001, have since been implemented, or are in the process of implementation by the ICC. How do you assess the progress made by the ACU and world cricket since June 2001? The last serious concerns we have had, about match-fixing or fixing an event within a match, go back to the early Spring of 2001. Since then the Unit’s work, together with that of the ICC and its individual member cricket boards supported by reports from our contacts around the world, have combined to allow us to say that we have no concerns about any of the international matches that have been played
The train station in Mbeya, Tanzania stands out among the other buildings in the city. It is the nicest structure in the city, and it, along with the railway that runs through it, was completely financed and built by the People’s Republic of China. Built between 1970 and 1975 at a cost of US$500 million, the TAZARA (Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority) Railway – running between the port of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania and Kapiri Mposhi in Zambia – was constructed as an alternative to rail lines via what was then Rhodesia (current Zimbabwe) and South Africa to landlocked Zambia. “It’s quite a reputable railway, providing the only alternative mode of transportation between Mbeya and Dar. I’ve been to the station and it reeks of an outside corporation,” says Nicki Nelson, an independent economic development project manager in the region. “The only negative thing I heard about it, other than being constantly late, is that due to its slow travel, robbery is a regular occurrence as locals jump on
