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...root of the problem: Somalia itself. The country fits squarely in the category of a failed state: It has no stable government with monopoly over the use of force, it is plagued with warlords struggling for supremacy, and it is fighting a bloody civil war in which neighbors Eritrea and Ethiopia have gotten involved. It is not surprising, then, that amidst poverty, famine, and disease, Somalis have decided to go after the rich ships visible from their shores. In that sense, seaborne piracy is the visible face of the lack of opportunities on shore. Coming to that realization, however...
...fuzzy math aside, the good news is that malaria control efforts are working. The 2008 World Malaria Report singles out Eritrea, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, and the Tanzanian region of Zanzibar for their remarkable improvements in cutting malaria illness and death. Since 2000, all of them have managed a greater than 50% drop in both rates, and all of them have done it through a combination of familiar methods: using long-lasting insecticidal bed nets to prevent mosquito bites; treating the disease with the newer, more effective artemisinin-based combination drug therapy; and spraying homes with insecticide. In these...
...agreement also sets an interesting new precedent. Italy also spent time in Eritrea, Somalia and Ethiopia, which may now demand similar compensation...
...wish Africa had only one Mugabe. However, when Mugabe attended the recent African Union leaders' meeting - fresh from an "election" marked by murder, torture and intimidation - nobody rebuked him or asked him to step down. That is because all the other leaders are doing similar things. In Egypt, Eritrea, Libya, Chad, Djibouti and elsewhere in Africa, leaders have a great deal in common with Mugabe. Some spend millions on themselves while their people remain vulnerable to starvation, then beg for foreign aid. Our forebears set our nations free from the colonial powers. These days Africans need liberating from...
...most troubling evidence of this came earlier this week, when the Alliance for the Re-Liberation of Somalia, an Eritrea-based umbrella group that includes many of the Islamists, said it was no longer prepared to talk about negotiating with Somalia's new Prime Minister, Nur Hassan Hussein. Hussein had brought a hint of hope for Somalia's future with a promise to negotiate with the Islamists. But now, amid the latest fighting and allegations of rights abuses by Ethiopian troops, those tentative hopes seem to have been crushed. "We are not going to talk to with the Ethiopians...