Scroll the film forward a year. It’s January 2007 and time for Davos again. Only one topic of discussion interests the ”fat cats in the snow” (as Bono calls them) — that’s how on earth they missed the glaring signs a year earlier that something big and nasty was about to happen.

Chelsea star Didier Drogba blasted Côte d’Ivoire into the African Nations Cup final in Alexandria on Tuesday with a 1-0 win over Nigeria. Drogba proved the big difference between the two West African countries when he pounced on a loose ball off a cross by Koffi Ndri from inside his own half to open the scoring a minute after the break.

More than 1 500 cases of cholera have been recorded in flood-stricken Mozambique, especially in the worst-hit central region, a health official said. ”Since the start of this year, we have received in our hospitals 1 506 cholera patients of whom three died,” said deputy director for health Martinho Dgedge.