Charles at LGF points to this article regarding Zimbabwe's "President" Robert Mugabe. You might remember him as being the one who in five years, turned this nation from Africa's leading producer of food to a nation that cannot grow enough to feed its people... From The Guardian article:
Zimbabwe to Process Newly Found Uranium
President Robert Mugabe has said Zimbabwe will process recently discovered uranium deposits in order to resolve its chronic electrical power shortage, state radio said Sunday.
Mugabe, who has close ties with two countries with controversial nuclear programs, Iran and North Korea, made the announcement Saturday, the radio station reported.
It was not clear how Mugabe intended to use any uranium deposits since the country does not have a nuclear power plant.
Emphasis mine -- sheesh! Does he know how expensive that would be to set up? The Guardian article touches on Zimbabwe's economic plight:
Zimbabwe has been plagued by a chronic shortage of foreign exchange since Mugabe's seizure of 5,000 white owned farms and the collapse of an export-oriented agricultural industry. It currently has a daily 400 to 450 megawatt generation shortfall on requirements of 2,100 megawatts.
Zimbabwe has had great difficulty meeting bills from Mozambique, South Africa and Congo for imports from the regional electric power grid.
The CIA World Factbook has some stats on this Paradise-on-Earth: Life expectancy at birth: 39.13 years (2005 est.) GDP - real growth rate: -8.2% (2004 est.) Inflation rate: 133% (2004 est.) Electricity - production: 8.839 billion kWh (2002) Electricity - consumption: 11.22 billion kWh (2002) Take a look at these numbers averaged out for the entire planet: Life expectancy at birth: 64.33 years GDP - real growth rate: 4.9% (2004 est.) Inflation rate: Developed countries 1% to 4% typically; developing countries 5% to 60% typically...
And Carter and Clinton think he is just great. Bunch of maroons!