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...step down. That is because all the other leaders are doing similar things. In Egypt, Eritrea, Libya, Chad, Djibouti and elsewhere in Africa, leaders have a great deal in common with Mugabe. Some spend millions on themselves while their people remain vulnerable to starvation, then beg for foreign aid. Our forebears set our nations free from the colonial powers. These days Africans need liberating from our own leaders. Mahad Dirieh, Djibouti...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 7/17/2008 | See Source »

...displaced since 2003. The allegations mark the first time the six-year-old ICC has brought charges against a sitting head of state. Al-Bashir's government vowed to fight the charges, while critics say the ICC's efforts to bring justice to Darfur could backfire, leaving peacekeepers and aid workers vulnerable to attack or expulsion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 7/17/2008 | See Source »

...NATO allies. I will focus on training Afghan security forces and supporting an Afghan judiciary. I will once and for all dismantle al-Qaeda and the Taliban. The solution in Afghanistan is not just military--it is political and economic. That is why I would also increase our nonmilitary aid by $1 billion. These resources should fund projects at the local level to impact ordinary Afghans, including the development of alternative livelihoods for poppy farmers. And we must demand better performance from the Afghan government through tough anticorruption safeguards on aid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: McCain and Obama on Afghanistan | 7/17/2008 | See Source »

FLAVOR The citrusy taste reminded one online reviewer of orange Kool-Aid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Ain't No Wine Cooler | 7/17/2008 | See Source »

...very hub of its economic and social life. Besides jobs, it has offered the town's wealthier residents, as well as private farmers, additional income by buying up the sugar cane they cultivate on their own land holdings. And it has bolstered the middle class by providing some financial aid and scholarships to college-bound children of employees. Employees, current and former, fill many local elected offices; the town's main road is Sugarland Highway, and U.S. Sugar built Cane Field Stadium at Clewiston High...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Sugar for a Town's Bitter Pill | 7/16/2008 | See Source »

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