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...Which is why, in the mid-1990s, when a new generation of leaders emerged, Africans dared to hope that things could finally be changing. People like Issaias Afewerki in Eritrea, Laurent Kabila in Democratic Republic of Congo, Paul Kagame in Rwanda, Yoweri Museveni in Uganda and Meles Zenawi in Ethiopia promised a new style of leadership that focused on building economies and democratic nations instead of shoring up their power by force and ensuring that they and their friends got rich. When President Bill Clinton visited Africa in 1998, he touted this generation as Africa's great hope. The reality...
Spielman also said that the study’s warning about the spread of malaria “is a bit of a stretch.” The study forecasted that suffering from malaria would increase by more than 100 percent in Ethiopia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe later this century...
...horrible atrocity, but isn't it time to stop ignoring this century's many other genocides? Why the silence concerning the 6.5 million Mao Zedong killed? Or the 20 million Stalin was responsible for murdering? Or the 2 million killed by black-African governments in Uganda, Burundi, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Sudan and other nations? Or the Japanese genocide that killed 2 million in World War II? And on and on. Your reviewer, like many other people, is dismayed that so few young Americans have heard of the Holocaust. But everyone should be angered about ignorance of the other genocides mentioned above...
Other countries watching these changes have approached Darkoh, asking him to take on their cases too, and he has responded by recruiting two partners and founding BroadReach Healthcare, a private company that is setting up HIV programs in South Africa, Ethiopia, Haiti and Vietnam. In those places too, Darkoh makes liberal use of churches and existing AIDS advocacy groups to get treatment to the largest number of people possible. In South Africa, he added an online medical database that can monitor remotely the health of rural patients and assist hands-on providers in the field...
...give the date of Jan. 1, 1980. But ask 50,000 child soldiers and they will all tell you Jan. 1," Jal says with a chuckle and a flap of his long, expressive hands. He's remembering his friends, with whom he was sent, aged about 7, to Ethiopia to escape the vicious civil war between Sudan's Christian south, where he was born, and the Muslim north. In Ethiopia, the boys were given books and English lessons, but when the aid agencies weren't looking, the Sudan People's Liberation Army (spla) gave them AK-47s and uniforms...