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After selling a soccer Web site to ESPN for $40 million eight years ago, former Undergraduate Council presidential candidate Tom D. Hadfield ’08 has now set his sights on fighting malaria in Africa...
Following an eye-opening trip through Zambia last summer, Hadfield has launched MalariaEngage.org, which provides a global platform for people around the world to make donations to support research and other programs in Africa...
...Traveling through Africa made me realize that there’s more to life than putting up soccer scores on the internet,” Hadfield said. “Everyone there had either lost a child to malaria or knew someone who had. That made a tremendous impact...
...Malaria is a humanitarian catastrophe,” Singer said. “One to two million people are killed every year. About one million of those are children under five in Africa...
...missile strike that killed Somalia's most notorious Islamist insurgent, Aden Hashi Ayro, has dealt a major blow to al-Qaeda's allies operating in East Africa. The deaths of Ayro and up to 10 others were announced early Thursday by spokesman for his al-Shabab militia, while the U.S. military confirmed it had struck what it called an al-Qaeda target in Somalia, but offered no details. Al-Shabab spokesmen said the men were killed early Thursday by a U.S. air strike on a house in Dusamareeb, a few hundred miles north of Mogadishu. "Infidel planes bombed Dhusamareb," Shabab...