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...campaign as genocide, but for the past two years the world has been content to let a 7,000-strong force from the African Union police what the United Nations describes as one of the two worst humanitarian disasters in the world today (the other is in the Congo). The African troops patrol an area the size of Texas, have a limited mandate and little money. The U.N. says it may send its own peacekeeping force to Sudan, perhaps with the help of NATO military advisers, but troops are unlikely to arrive before the end of this year...
Sitting in a straw-walled hut, the young woman whispers her grim tale: as she walked recently near a refugee camp in the village of Dubie in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a government soldier dragged her into a house, tore off her sarong and T shirt, and raped her. Her two-month-old baby, whom she was carrying on her back, tumbled to the ground and lay wailing throughout the attack. "He left me there naked," Ngoza Djoli says, her baby at her breast. Djoli does not know how old she is; she looks about 17. When her husband...
...Even before agreement is reached with Russia and China, the U.S., Britain and France will seek support from the remaining ten members of the Council - Argentina, Tanzania, Congo, Ghana, Denmark, Greece, Japan, Peru, Qatar and Slovakia. But absent any smoking-gun evidence of Iran maintaining a weapons program, and considering Washington's credibility problem after the Iraq WMD fiasco, the U.S. and its allies may struggle to maintain the momentum of efforts to turn up the heat on Tehran. Indeed, their best hope may lie in Iran rattling its own sabers so much that it actually alienates the two powers...
Congotronics 2 Various Artists Legend places the start of the Congolese “tradi-modern” scene with the exodus of rural musicians to Kinshasa, the bustling capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo. To be heard above the urban roar, the story goes, bands had to create homemade amplification systems for their drums and “likembé” thumb pianos. They made microphones from old car parts, new electric guitars from cast-offs, and junk percussion from whatever they could find to keep the beat—hubcaps, tin cans, glass bottles. Last...
Frank Marshall, the director, is a producer extraordinaire (“Indiana Jones,” “The Bourne Supremacy”). with a shoddy directorial record: his last attempt was the disappointing Michael Crichton-inspired “Congo...