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...stem the trend, activists on the front lines have been attempting to promote safe sex - even in countries where it is not allowed - rather than prevent sex altogether. In the African nation of Burundi, homosexuality is not recognized. "My government said gays and homosexuals don't exist - they are only found in Europe or America," says Burundian Georges Kanuma, 36, an openly gay activist. Frustrated with the lack of health services for gay patients, who are routinely shunned by Burundian physicians, Kanuma founded a nonprofit AIDS organization, Association National de Soutien Aux Seropositif et Aux Malades du SIDA (ANSS), eight...
...agencies: poor roads, unpredictable weather and political instability. After Kenya's disputed election in December, a U.S. shipment of 9,000 metric tons of sorghum was blocked for more than 100 days in Mombasa, with no safe way to get it out, Kidane says. Violence returned to Burundi after a ceasefire deal failed, so WFP must postpone plans to stop feeding Burundian refugees in Tanzania. WFP is sometimes a target of violence too. Darfur rations were cut by nearly half in May because too many trucks had been hijacked. Distribution was suspended briefly in Karamoja last year after cattle rustlers...
...Odinga also blamed the continent's ethnic conflicts on the "mediocrity of African leadership." Even the mild-mannered President of Burundi, Pierre Nkurunziza, struck a sharp note, hitting out at the practice, still widespread among African men, of taking multiple wives and siring hordes of children. Jacob Zuma, tipped to be the next President of South Africa, listened calmly. He boasts four wives and at least 18 children...
...media images as they did around the old. But while the long tail ensures once obscure documentaries remain available, citizen advocacy may have a short tail, causing the number of viable causes to get winnowed to a handful of megacauses. Burma may achieve the requisite market share, while Burundi fails to penetrate...
When I came to the United States in 1994, change for me as a nine-year-old child was simply relief from the uncertainty of whether I was going to live or going to die that existed in my country of residence in Burundi and in my native country of Rwanda. The opportunity to grow up in an environment in which my life was not in perpetual jeopardy was a welcome change, but I quickly learned that the privilege of a secure environment is not to be idle but rather to actively work at being the change that one desires...