Word: africa
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...Trees are present more among farmlands in the dense tropical areas of Southeast Asia and Central America, along with much of South America. The proportion is lower in sub-Saharan Africa - although Nobel Peace laureate Wangari Maathai's Green Belt Movement has helped plant more than 30 million trees for Africa's poor. The difference seems to come down mostly to support for tree-planting by governments or NGOs like Maathai's. In places where agroforestry is encouraged this way, trees are far likelier to bloom than in places where farmers are given no such guidance. (See TIME's special...
...husband is not Secretary of State. I am.' HILLARY CLINTON, responding to a question from a Congolese university student during her tour of Africa; according to reports, the student had meant to inquire about President Barack Obama's position on an issue but instead mistakenly referred to former President Bill Clinton...
...Unfortunately, attitudes on the street are not so easily changed. Unlike the epidemic in parts of Africa, where the virus has cut a large swath through entire communities and few have been untouched, the number of HIV-positive persons in Vietnam is less than one percent. Most of the estimated 300,000 people who have contracted the virus are intravenous drug users and sex workers. Its association with "social evils" says Morch, makes it tough to combat the myths and ignorance around AIDS. "You can have wonderful policies and wonderful legislation," Morch adds, but without a proper campaign...
...sanctions. In fact, the only reason the Libyans handed over the two agents named in the Lockerbie indictment was the prospect of closing the matter and to allow the lifting of U.N. sanctions against Libya. Even then, it took eight years of coaxing by the Saudis and South Africa's then-president Nelson Mandela to persuade him to hand them over (with Ghaddafi demanding assurances that he wouldn't be held personally responsible, and that the trial would focus narrowly on the two agents...
...sanctions against Libya had proved useful for the West not only in pursuing the perpetrators of the Lockerbie bombing, but - perhaps more important in the minds of Washington and London - boxing in one of the developing world's most persistent troublemakers, who had spent two decades making mischief throughout Africa and the Middle East. Having largely achieved that objective, Britain and the U.S. may be in no great hurry to resolve the Lockerbie standoff...