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...will ever know how Afghans voted in their country's presidential elections on Aug. 20, 2009. Seven weeks after the polling, the U.N.-backed Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC) is still trying to separate fraudulent tallies from ballots. In some provinces, many more votes were counted than were cast. E.U. election monitors characterize 1.5 million votes as suspect, which would include up to one-third of the votes cast for incumbent President Hamid Karzai. Once fraud occurs on the scale of what took place in Afghanistan, it is impossible to untangle...
There is no easy solution to Afghanistan's election mess. If the ECC removes enough fraudulent votes, Karzai will fall below 50%, and there will be a second round of voting. However, the factors that caused problems on Aug. 20 - ghost polling stations, corrupt election staff and a partisan commission - are still present. Dealing with those factors will require leadership that the head of the U.N. mission has yet to demonstrate. If Karzai emerges the winner of the rushed and incomplete audit process now under way, Afghanistan's internal peace will depend on Karzai's opponents accepting - or at least...
...where to begin? Kintaudi moved back to Kinshasa in the late 1990s and eventually directed a medical-residency program for the Eglise du Christ au Congo (ECC), an association of the major Protestant churches that operates more than 80 hospitals and 600 clinics. Half of the 40 doctors he trained in the first graduating class left the country. No doubt, Kintaudi explains, they found they could do better than the $30-a-month salary most doctors are paid in Congo...
Undaunted, Kintaudi and the ECC approached USAID with a plan to revive the country's devastated health-care system. They received a five-year $25 million grant, disbursed through Interchurch Medical Assistance, a nongovernmental organization based in the U.S., to set up 56 health zones located throughout the nation. (An additional 17 ECC-run health zones are funded by the World Bank.) A typical health zone serves 100,000 to 150,000 people with one hospital and about 20 health clinics, generally run by nurses...
...letter yesterday to Wayne Coy, chairman of the ECC, Doane said: "... our station, being entirely self-supporting, stands to suffer greatly if we are forced to wall until new regulations are enacted. Loss of advertising revenue to a non-profit station like WHRB would be financially disastrous. Furthermore, our listeners would suffer the less of programs given in conjunction with college courses...