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Like everybody else spending spring break on the Old Continent, I lose an entire hour of my life only to get it back the last Sunday in October. Not a problem, I say to myself. After all, that happens every spring--but this year it was inflationary.
The new churches use local languages and mix traditional African spiritual beliefs with Pentecostal-style worship, including the use of drums, guitars and charismatic preachers. They also address local problems--poverty, drought, corruption--and offer a sense of belonging that is rare in a continent whose politicians so often fail...
Europe's problems are an intertwined result, in part, of the elaborate welfare systems that have been in place continent-wide since World War II. Tighter immigration policies are based to a large degree on a desire to prevent people from poor countries moving to Europe to live off the...
With images of hand-painted coffin advertisements and school children singing in a chorus about losing parents to AIDS, the video presented a series of statistics on the extent to which AIDS has ravaged the African continent.
If the epidemic is not controlled soon, Marlink said, any advances that had been made in life expectancy on the African continent will soon be erased.