Word: africa
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Increased education and use of family planning have pushed down fertility rates all over the globe. On the negative side, mortality has been driven up by the spread of AIDS, especially in Africa...
...Alaska two years ago just wasn't quite enough. "It's so much more fun to go and learn about a country and the people," she says. This past summer, when she ventured from her home near Tacoma, Wash., it was not to Rome or Rio but to West Africa, where she did as much as six hours' worth of volunteer work each day for three weeks in a village named Ho, 50 miles north of Accra, Ghana. Under the auspices of the organization Cross-Cultural Solutions, Carnright, a part-time real estate agent, assisted in a local nursery school...
...Asia 61% Africa 13% Europe 12% S. America 9% N. America...
...proj.) Asia 60% Africa 20% S. America 9% Europe 7% N. America...
...They appeared in court on Oct. 4 as expected, but this was for further remand and review of their bail conditions," said Claudia A. McElroy, coordinator of the Africa program for the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). The committee, a 20-member humanitarian group, has been protesting the Zimbabwean government's treatment of the journalists for several months...