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...can?t buy. The Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund was set up in 1997 with the donations that came flooding in after her death. Since then it has handed out $150 million in grants to more than 350 projects and organizations focusing on issues like palliative care in Africa and raising awareness of the problems facing young refugees. Other charities can spend huge amounts of time and money just trying to explain to governments and the public what it is they do. With Diana as its silent spokeswoman, the Fund needs no introduction - everyone knew Diana and the causes...
DEFINITION kon-flikt ko-ko n: Profits from the cocoa trade used to finance civil war in Africa's Ivory Coast...
...AFRICA AID $60 billion At the recent G-8 summit, amount that leaders pledged to deliver to Africa to fight AIDS, malaria...
...arbitration, a quasi-legal process offering sharply limited rights. Garrett acknowledged that his employment contract required arbitration, but he argued that the 1994 act overrode the contract. A federal judge in Dallas agreed in 2004, just before Garrett was activated for a 10-month tour in the Horn of Africa. Last year, though, the U.S. Court of Appeals in New Orleans reversed that decision, becoming the first court to rule that a contract crafted to help employers trumps the law designed to protect the rights of veterans. "That just blows me away," says Garrett, whose case heads for arbitration...
...first African feature film--was more influential than most politicians. His warm, internationally acclaimed films included Xala and Moolaadé, the story of a woman who tries to shield a group of girls from genital mutilation. A former dockworker and novelist, he turned to film at age 40 to reach Africa's largely illiterate masses and co-founded the biannual FESPACO film festival, called the Cannes of Africa...