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Karamoja is not like most of Uganda. In fact, precisely because it is so varied, the small east African country is a good example of how WFP's worldwide operations have been hit by high food prices. WFP buys more food in Uganda than in any other country in the world. Most of the land is lush and fertile, and the government is stable; President Yoweri Museveni has ruled since 1986. Last year WFP's administrative center in the capital city Kampala, then responsible for 11 countries in eastern and central Africa, handled some 15 million recipients and about...
Such attitudes have alienated old Mugabe supporters in Africa. On June 11, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni criticized the Zimbabwe elections and said Mugabe "must go" if he lost the vote. Two days later 40 African leaders, including 14 former presidents, former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and former Archbishop Desmond Tutu published an open letter condemning the violence, while Botswana, one of several of Zimbabwe's neighbors now caring for the heavy influx of refugees who have fled the violence and poverty, lodged an official protest with the regime over its conduct. On a visit to Zimbabwe, Marwick Khumalo...
...Since then, Juneteenth has been a day of celebration for many African Americans, a de facto second Independence Day commemorating the end of slavery and a first step toward inclusion in the greater American dream. It's a bittersweet holiday, "a time of celebration, but also a time of reflection, healing, and hopefully a time for the country to come together and deal with its slave legacy," says the Rev. Ronald V. Meyers, chairman of the National Juneteenth Observance Foundation. Meyers has worked for almost 15 years to get Juneteenth recognized by state legislatures. Currently, a little more than half...
...According to the poll, Hispanic voters are backing Obama by a margin of 62 to 28 percent. This is not an unprecedented gap for a generic Democrat, but much had been written during the spring about whether Hispanics would vote for an African-American. Perhaps those analysts believed primary exit polls were a reliable prologue for the fall: Hillary Clinton had run ahead of Obama by a two-to-one margin among Hispanics in the states where exit polls were taken. Note the spread: Clinton usually won between 60 and 65 percent of Hispanics in those contests; Obama captured between...
...Zimbabwean people want? We want them to say that. We want them to act that way, because then they will have removed any residual legitimacy they had. In fact, they should act to that extreme, and then they will have exposed themselves. And I'm sure that the South African Development Community and the African Union and the whole international community will see the military junta that is in place for what...