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Even as fighting eased in Srebrenica under a cease-fire agreement brokered in Sarajevo late Saturday night, painful memories were being evoked half a continent away, in Poland, where preparations to mark the 50th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising were under way. In 1943, 60,000 Jewish survivors of...
More direct aid, the cancellation of past debts, and the creation of "development banks"--institutions which provide low-interest loans to developing nations--would greatly accelerate the development and stabilization of the continent, Diallo said.
The UNICEF official said that by "focusing attention on recovery rather than disaster," Africa would be able to impart to the "global village" that the continent is committed to progress.
A new focus on Africa's "islands of hope," rather than on its disaster-torn image, is the key to rekindling Western interest in the continent, UNICEF official Djibril Diallo said at the Harvard African Students Association's African Students Conference at the Kennedy School of Government Saturday.
During the war, Munro was on the bridge of his ship with his captain when orders came from the Pentagon that the armed forces would be integrated. Without warning, the captain turned to him and bellowed, "Munro, integrate the ship! That's an order!" On that day, John Munro began...