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...Africa is to be truly free, if - decades after throwing off colonial rule - it is now to escape poverty, corruption and autocracy, it needs a second, quiet revolution. The repression and electoral theft in Zimbabwe, the riots and civilian coup in Kenya in January, both suggest that the worst standards of governance persist. On the other hand, the last few years have seen the rise of a new generation of leaders, subdued heroes who have replaced the titans of the past and emphasize self-reliance and good governance: men and women such as Rwanda's Paul Kagame, Liberia's Ellen...
...have left the guerrillas and their 44-year-old insurgency adrift and on the point of defeat. But they still held potent cards: one was the hundreds of millions of dollars they make each year via drug trafficking; the other was their more than 700 army, police and civilian hostages. And no captives were as valuable - or as much a symbol of their continued leverage - as Betancourt and the three Americans: Keith Stansell, Thomas Howes and Marc Gonsalves. "The FARC will never be able to recover from this," says Alfredo Rangel, a military analyst and head of the Security...
...government. It's going to be very hard now to talk of the FARC as a national guerrilla movement - it's going to fracture and fragment even more, and the important thing for the Uribe government to do now is offer them more incentives to incorporate themselves into civilian society...
...Iraqi troops] but there is nothing," she told TIME. The American air strike, which brought down Imrais' house and part of a neighbor's, killing her son, came after a man fired on the helicopter with an AK-47, Saadi says. The U.S. military accused militia fighters of using civilian homes and side streets to launch rockets and mortars, thus making Sadr City residents vulnerable to U.S. attacks...
...government is doing the best it can, insists Tahsin al-Sheikhli, the civilian spokesman for the Baghdad security plan, which manages the expansion of checkpoints and development projects in the city. Sheikhli says projects are being implemented to double the number of hospital beds in Sadr City, rehabilitate 51 schools, and provide basic services. Officials at the al-Shaheed al-Sadr hospital, one of two main hospitals in the district, say that government money has already bought them much-needed drugs and other supplies. Hospital electricity has been restored, out of a combination of city power and generators...