Hacktivate

This is exciting news about the bank that Claudia works at. From the Malawi Nation:

Opportunity Bank opens Limbe branch
by Frank Phiri, 24 July 2006 - 08:57:52
Banker of the poor—Opportunity International Bank of Malawi (OIBM)—on Friday opened its first satellite branch for the Southern Region in Janoo House in Limbe opposite the Metro Shop.
OIBM Head of [...]

>From Ethan Zuckerman’s blog:

Throughout the continent, fixed network operators are reporting
significant losses from “vandalism� to their cables, both those buried
beneath the ground and those hanging from poles. Thieves cut sections of
cable to sell for the copper it contains - oddly enough, one of the
worst affected companies is Zamtel, which reports lots of theft in the
“copper [...]