Word: botswana
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...conference of the six countries and three rebel groups involved in Africa's widest conflict. The plan calls for 3,000 U.N. personnel to monitor the withdrawal until a final timetable is drawn up by May 15. Congolese President Joseph Kabila agreed to the appointment of former Botswana leader Ketumile Masire as regional mediator...
...because of decentralization." More than 80% of the WFP's 6,000 employees work in the field, and the agency boasts that administrative costs are only about 9% of the budget--comparable with those of private charities. She has seen 25 countries--most recently Vietnam, Tunisia, Mexico and Botswana--"graduate" from the food recipient column into relative self-sufficiency...
Kennedy Fugewane, a cheerful, elderly volunteer counselor, sits in an empty U.S.-funded clinic that offers fast, pinprick blood tests in Francistown, Botswana, pondering how to break through the silence. This city suffers one of the world's highest infection rates, but people deny the disease because HIV is linked with sex. "We don't reveal anything," he says. "But people are so stigmatized even if they walk in the door." Africans feel they must keep private anything to do with sex. "If a man comes here, people will say he is running around," says Fugewane, though he acknowledges that...
Here, men have to migrate to work, inside their countries or across borders. All that mobility sows HIV far and wide, as Louis Chikoka is the first to recognize. He regularly drives the highway that is Botswana's economic lifeline and its curse. The road runs for 350 miles through desolate bush that is the Texas-size country's sole strip of habitable land, home to a large majority of its 1.5 million people. It once brought prospectors to Botswana's rich diamond reefs. Now it's the link for transcontinental truckers like Chikoka who haul goods from South Africa...
...Johanna McGeary, who wrote the cover and spent a month traveling through South Africa, Botswana and Zimbabwe, the hardest part was breaking through the walls of stigma and silence that surround the disease. "It was excruciating to keep asking, 'Do you know why you're sick? How did you get AIDS?' I've covered wars for a long time, and you always feel like a ghoul when you try to record the facts and emotions of someone else's tragedy. But in one way, this seemed worse, because everything seemed so hopeless. In war, you can always tell yourself that...