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Africa has had more than its share of tragedies - Darfur, Somalia and Zimbabwe are just three of the most current. But it is the continent's double misfortune that, all too often, the rest of the world realizes the full extent of its troubles in the later telling rather than as they happen. The world watched as Rwanda convulsed into genocide in 1994. But for many, especially in the U.S., it wasn't until the publication in 1998 of Philip Gourevitch's book We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families, that the full...
...sorghum was blocked for more than 100 days in Mombasa, with no safe way to get it out, Kidane says. Violence returned to Burundi after a ceasefire deal failed, so WFP must postpone plans to stop feeding Burundian refugees in Tanzania. WFP is sometimes a target of violence too. Darfur rations were cut by nearly half in May because too many trucks had been hijacked. Distribution was suspended briefly in Karamoja last year after cattle rustlers ambushed a convoy and shot dead the lead driver. The trucks, returning from a delivery, were all empty...
...goes further, saying the top generals of the Joint Operations Command are now in charge of Zimbabwe, having staged a silent coup shortly after the March elections. In a telephone interview from inside Zimbabwe, Tsvangirai, 56, a former trade union leader, compared the militias to the janjaweed in Darfur and described the government as a junta. Indeed, under Mugabe's regime, the country is fast becoming Africa's Burma: an isolated military cabal bent on crushing democracy, paranoid about imagined foreign conspiracies and prepared to sacrifice its people to preserve its power...
...genocide, you're referring to Matabeleland or the situation now? No, not just Matabeleland. What's taking place now is state-sponsored violence and killings by the military and the militias. It's no different from the janjaweed [who have been accused of genocide in Darfur]. It's no different from Charles Taylor's actions in Liberia, where the militia was responsible for killing, maiming, raping and arson within the rural areas. That's exactly what's happening. Twenty-five thousand people internally displaced, 3,000 people needed hospitalization because of torture, 65 dead, and 200 missing and unaccounted...
...while the topic of abortion is often a conversation ender or results in a terse decision to "agree to disagree," this group wanted to get at real answers, asking Obama to explain how he thought through the issue as a Christian. They also talked about poverty, health care and Darfur, among other concerns. "When he talked about trying to bring people together on poverty or abortion reduction," says one participant, "there were a lot of nods in the room, even from some traditional Evangelicals who are frustrated with the lack of progress...