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This month, the United Nation's Food and Agricultural Organization listed Zimbabwe as one of four countries (the others being Lesotho, Swaziland and Somalia) worst affected by the world food crisis. Relief agencies say close to half the resident population now supplement their diets with food aid and, with an economy that has collapsed, there is little hope of improvement. Running parallel to Zimbabwe's worsening humanitarian crisis in the coming years will be a deepening political one, analysts predict. Pretoria-based Zimbabwe expert Chris Maroleng, of the International Institute of Strategic Studies, describes the three months since the first...
...That's how the Copenhagen Consensus works. Over the past two years, some of the world's top economists have been crunching the numbers on the most efficient way to spend that $75 billion, roughly the sum total of global foreign aid budgets. Led by Bjorn Lomborg - an idiosyncratic author best known for his skeptical views on global warming - the organization last month gathered eight major economists, including five Nobel Prize winners, to come up with an answer. The results are surprising. According to the numbers, the biggest problem facing the world isn't global warming or terrorism...
...beaten and 25,000 displaced. More than 200 supporters are missing. M.D.C. party leaders have also been arrested - Tsvangirai has been detained repeatedly - and his No. 2. Tendai Biti, has been charged with treason, which can be a capital offence. Journalists have also been detained and beaten, and foreign aid workers and diplomats harassed...
...took farms by force and handed them to regime leaders with few farming skills, Mugabe has presided over the ruin of his agriculture-based economy. Four out of every five Zimbabweans is unemployed, inflation runs at an absurd 165,000% and millions of Zimbabweans now depend on foreign food aid. Meanwhile, Mugabe and the generals who back him have become increasingly brazen about their contempt for democracy and the welfare of their own people. Several leading figures in the security forces vowed they would refuse to cede power to Tsvangirai even if he won an election...
...from Vietnam. He was proud of his service but said that in order to survive, he saw and did awful things he could never talk about. I don't know what the answer is, but posttraumatic stress disorder and depression have to be treated with more than a Band-Aid like Prozac. The Department of Veterans Affairs needs every dollar it gets to care for these brave warriors, and the public needs to know this will have to continue for years to come. RoseAnn Hassiepen-Hatfield WHEATON...