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GHANA Another Soccer Tragedy - and the Worst Tragedy struck an African football stadium for the fourth time in a month when 126 panicked fans died in a stampede in Accra. A shocked President John Kufuor declared three days of mourning and called for an inquiry into the continent's worst...
At the beginning of the last decade, the world had a chance to halt the spread of AIDS in Africa. At the time, 4 million Africans were HIV-positive. The World Health Organization's Global Programme on AIDS, headed by the visionary Jonathan Mann, worked with governments across Africa to...
And then, for reasons that ultimately come down to the world's lack of resolve, the program fell apart. Funding disappeared, and plans were scaled back. Ten years later, 25 million Africans are infected; 18 million have died; and 13 million orphans struggle to cope without their parents. The toll...
In hospitals in Jos, a city in Nigeria (where more than 2 million adults are HIV-positive), word has begun to spread that help might be on its way. Families that had until recently thought the deaths of mothers and fathers were inescapable are now scrambling to find enough money...
Systemonic Private company based in Dresden, Germany CEO: Ruediger Stroh What it does: Developer of a broadband wireless chip that aims to understand all major standards, allowing seamless roaming with any broadband wireless device between any network on any continent Why it is hot: Its technology can be applied across...