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...country could feed all of East Africa and much of southern Africa," says Claude Jibidar, the World Food Program's deputy representative in Congo. But that's small comfort for Dubie's 18,000 refugees. More than 10 die every week from malnutrition, according to Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders, or msf), the sole relief group in the village. There is a row of freshly dug graves under the trees on the edge of Dubie's biggest refugee camp. "Essentially people are dying of starvation," says Delfin Kapia, a medic for msf, as he struggles...
...foisting the problem on Morocco is no solution. "They're driving them in buses to the Algerian desert with no water or food," claims Pepe Alonso, a Melilla lawyer who heads the local chapter of the Association for Human Rights. "This will cause many deaths." Médecins Sans Frontières said more than 500 immigrants had been abandoned by Moroccan authorities in the desert near the Algerian border. Neither the new measures nor a proposed third fence are likely to be a deterrent. "We try three or four times a week, until we make it," says Nikail...
...have been identified in many cases (including Dizon's-Edgar Belandres, a swinery owner, is currently on trial for the murder, a crime he denies committing). But only a few have been convicted since 1986. Stung by criticism from organizations like the International Federation of Journalists and Reporters Sans Frontières, the administration of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo recently set up Task Force Newsmen, a special group under Interior Secretary Angelo Reyes, to look into the killings. But Reyes, the hard-bitten former Chief of Staff of the Philippine Armed Forces, seems determined to downplay the problem. "There...
...Sumatra. "This is a big catastrophe for people living in the region and it's our way of showing our involvement," says Scania chief financial officer Jan Gurander. Mobile-phone company Vodafone Group donated $1.7 million to relief groups, and $187,000 to Télécoms sans Frontières, which installs mobile networks in areas blighted by disaster and war, and MapAction, which performs satellite mapping to facilitate logistical support. French electricity company EDF gave €1 million to relief charities as well as in-kind support to Electriciens sans Frontières, which is sending...
...Tunnel would not have been built if we'd known about these problems," lamented Eurotunnel's now-evicted CEO, Richard Shirrefs, in February. Attacking the debt is the main priority of new chairman, Jacques Maillot, the founder and former chairman (having stepped down under pressure) of travel group Nouvelles Frontières. Maillot was appointed after he joined forces with stock tip-sheet publisher Nicolas Miguet to rally discontented shareholders and replace Shirrefs and his board. Miguet, who has had several run-ins with the law (including a 1999 conviction for fraud and forgery after he advised clients to invest...