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...cows are a constant touchstone for Museveni, the firm ground beneath a philosophy he believes can rescue Africa from chaos. So he often repairs to his cattle ranch in the green hills of Rwakitura where he grew up and where his father before him and his son after him tend the long-horned herds. As the cows file through the gate to the communal wateringhole, Museveni softly calls each by name. "This one is Gaju Ya Bihogo," he says. "That one is Kiremba Kya Ngabo. The gray one over there is descended from my grandfather's herd." Surveying the cattle...
...Sudan. But it is far from certain that what Museveni did in Uganda can be repeated elsewhere. As Museveni's confreres take power in the region--Kabila now rules Congo, guerrilla companion Paul Kagame is the authority to be reckoned with in Rwanda, old schoolmate John Garang is gaining ground in his long struggle to topple the Islamist regime in Sudan--the question is whether they will prove to be faithful disciples of the Museveni model or just younger versions of Africa's despotic...
...perished on June 25, when the Soufriere Hills volcano spewed 150-m.p.h. molten rivers of lava, gas and ash down its flanks onto the villages below. As farmers tended to their carrot and cabbage fields, huge rocks showered on them and the scorching lava raced over the scalded ground. Ash-filled smoke plunged the land into darkness. There was nowhere to run. Nineteen people died, buried under tons of volcanic slag...
Crouched in the undergrowth around the village of Samaki in northern Cambodia are several dozen men wearing protective vests and visors, looking like alien invaders. They skim the ground in front of them with metal detectors, and occasionally one raises an arm, a whistle is blown, and everyone moves back carefully. The land mine just discovered is detonated remotely, an explosion jogs the ground, and the field officer gives the all-clear. Then the Cambodians, who work for a British-based de-mining organization called Halo Trust, resume methodically clearing the heavily mined land around the village, one square foot...
...people argue against the fundamental rightness of stigmatizing and ultimately trying to rid the planet of a weapon that maims and kills more than 2,000 people every month. But experts on the ground fear that the high-profile diplomatic campaign for a ban may detract from the less glamorous work of removing some of the millions of mines already planted...