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...struggling with a shortage of supplies. So far this year, donors have contributed a total in cash and kind of almost $176 million, equivalent to 271,000 metric tons of food - less than 50% of last year's contributions. Many aid workers blame the financial crisis, but while recession-hit donors are keeping their wallets closed, the situation in Ethiopia is only getting more urgent. (Read: "Ethiopia: Pain amid Plenty...
...program recently attacked by as "re-education camps for young people ... as a parent, I would have a very, very difficult time seeing my children do this," is - ha! - joined by the son of • mere reporting of Harrison Bachmann's joining AmeriCorps is disingenuously attacked by as "a hit piece on one of my kids...
...members of the armed forces. There are also tribal conflicts, which are not connected to any ethnic group [in particular]; it is not, as portrayed, an "ethnic war." Most of the intra-tribal fighting in fact is between tribes of Arab origins over resources because years of drought that hit the area made the scarcity of resources one reason for conflict; between nomads and peasants; and between nomads themselves because grazing lands have become limited due to the decline in rainfall. Conflict, therefore, between youth that herd their livestock is likely. We maintain that there is a problem in Darfur...
When a devastating earthquake hit China's Sichuan province in May 2008, one bright spot in the disaster was the massive outpouring of support from across the country. In the weeks following the magnitude 8.0 quake, millions of Chinese contributed to relief efforts, either in cash donations or volunteer labor. Cars and trucks loaded with clothes, bottled water and instant noodles streamed into the disaster zone, where nearly 90,000 people had been killed and 5 million left homeless. The response was so overwhelming that authorities blocked roads and turned away volunteers because they threatened to overwhelm official rescue work...
...towering up to 45,000 feet high are a regular occurrence and airstrips range from muddy tracks to un-mown fields on the edge of cliffs which require planes to jump from zero altitude to thousands of feet in minutes. "You are talking 200 foot trees and you can hit them and fall to your death. Very few aircraft survive accidents like that," says Grant, 63. Though there are few navigational aids for pilots operating in PNG, Grant doesn't think they would have made much of a difference. "There's not a pilot flying in PNG that hasn...