Word: ethiopia
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...accompanying Live Aid rock concert, which was screened to 1.5 billion people around the globe, raised millions more. Band Aid, the brainchild of scruffy Boomtown Rats singer Bob Geldof and electropop pioneer Midge Ure, eventually pulled in more than $144 million, most of which bought emergency food for Ethiopia. "I once said that we would be more powerful in memory than in reality," Geldof remarked in 1992 when the original Band Aid Trust was laid to rest. "Now we are that memory...
...effort, and the accompanying Live Aid rock concert, screened to 1.5 billion people around the globe, raised millions more. Band Aid, the brainchild of scruffy Boomtown Rats singer Bob Geldof and electropop pioneer Midge Ure, eventually pulled in more than $144 million, most of which bought emergency food for Ethiopia. "I once said that we would be more powerful in memory than in reality," Geldof remarked in 1992 when the original Band Aid Trust was laid to rest. "Now we are that memory." This Christmas we'll hear it all again. Last week marked the 20th anniversary of the original...
...more bloody domestic campaign in the 1990s was eventually crushed by Mubarak's secret police, leaving the radicals mostly either in prison or dispersed. But the Egyptians who honed their skills in Afghanistan made their mark elsewhere, whether in attacking Egyptian diplomats and leaders in Pakistan and Ethiopia, and by their participation in key Qaeda operations...
...cause for the next 10 years. Bono said that reducing Africa's burdens "is not just heart; it's smart." In Washington last week, Finance Ministers from the G-7 nations met to discuss debt relief, and this week Prime Minister Tony Blair goes to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, for a meeting of the Commission for Africa, which is examining ways to reduce poverty, including debt relief. The industrialized world is finally waking up to what debt relief can do for the developing world. Thanks to lighter debt burdens, Burkina Faso has slashed the cost of AIDS drugs; Mozambique has vaccinated...
...first few laps of the 25-lap race, Gebrselassie stayed with the lead pack as it glided its way around the graceful Olympic Stadium. By the 5000-m mark, Bekele, Gebrselassie and Ethiopia's third runner, Sileshi Sihine, were 1-2-3. The Ethiopian trio was soon lapping slower runners, even as the younger men seemed to slow the pace to accommodate Gebrselassie. But then he began to struggle. At 7,500 m, he fell back for a lap before coming again, fighting off pain, hoping he could run through...