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...conflict between Sudan’s northern Arab government and non-Arab forces in the country’s south that ended in 2005. After fleeing his village in distress, enduring extreme hunger and thirst, and weathering ambushes by Arab troops, Dau eventually reached a refugee camp in Ethiopia, he said last night. There, Dau explained, he became an informal leader among a group of as many as 200 boys, all refugees who had fled the violence in Sudan. In 1991, when civil war brought a pro-Sudanese government to power in Ethiopia, Dau’s group of boys...
...Africa remained above 5% last year. Ghana has just celebrated 50 years of independence and is prospering. Last year's elections in Congo went better than most people dared hope. A new peace deal has been brokered in the Ivory Coast. But there are also serious negatives: conflict between Ethiopia and Somalia; political repression in Zimbabwe; genocide in Darfur...
Pastors may feel prepared for the lifestyle, but, says one study, 84% of wives don't. "I had no clue how to be a pastor's wife," says Amy Andrews, 32, a mother of two in Rochester, N.Y. After nine years, "I still don't." Born in Ethiopia to missionary parents, Andrews had begun college in Fullerton, Calif., when she met Brian, a Stanford grad and aerospace engineer from Los Angeles. Six months after they began dating, he awoke one day with a calling. Hired by Vineyard Church, he moved with his new wife to their current post...
...start, Swagger, still on active duty, is perched on a hilltop in Ethiopia - "a country we're not supposed to be in" - on assignment to shoot down some enemy soldiers. The movie has established its fidelity to the war and cop genres in this first scene, when Swagger's spotter, a nice kid, mentions he can't wait to see his girlfriend back home and is promptly killed. That information also gives Swagger a rare ally (pretty, stalwart Kate Mara, who played Heath Ledger's daughter in Brokeback Mountain) once he's on the run from Washington, D.C., to Tennessee...
...orphanage she and Pitt visited during a trip last November. Jolie adopted the boy as a single parent because Vietnam's adoption regulations don't allow unmarried couples to co-adopt. Her new son joins 5-year-old brother Maddox, adopted from Cambodia, sister Zahara, age 2, from Ethiopia; and baby Shiloh, the couple's biological daughter who was born in Namibia last...