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...Nothing is going to happen," says one resident of Bulawayo, who asked not to be named. "He is clinging to power because he has so much to lose." If Mugabe were to leave office, they point out, he could suffer the fate of Charles Taylor, the former President of Liberia, who is now awaiting trial in the International Criminal Court...
...said we should eat them. Even the U.N. white people - he said we could use them as pork to eat.' JOSEPH 'ZIGZAG' MARZAH, ex-death squad leader in Liberia, alleging at the war-crimes tribunal in the Hague that former Liberian President Charles Taylor - now on trial - ordered his soldiers to cannibalize the flesh of their enemies...
...Conflict Resolution. “She is successfully improving security, jump-starting the economy, transforming agriculture, and, most of all, giving her people a sense of hope after years of mayhem,” Rotberg said. Johnson-Sirleaf has also set a precedent for collaboration between Harvard and Liberia. Swanee Hunt, Director of the Kennedy School’s Women and Public Policy Program, said she has hosted Johnson-Sirleaf in her home during recent visits. Hunt said that a stream of Harvard professors conferred with the President. “She was holding court in our room...
...President this week began a tour of five countries in Africa - Benin, Tanzania, Rwanda, Ghana and Liberia - clearly selected to highlight U.S. benevolence and to showcase the sort of genuinely enthusiastic public welcome all too rare in Bush's trips abroad. At the start of his trip, Bush told reporters he wanted to draw attention to some of the success stories on a continent all too often considered one big disaster zone. The visit was about "heralding good leadership, it's heralding honest government and is focusing our help on local folks' efforts to deal with malaria and AIDS...
...peaceful, prosperous Africa depends on Africans themselves. That provides the strongest case for optimism. Some of Africa's most thriving states are places that recently seemed beyond hope. Rwanda, where tribal violence escalated into genocide in 1994, is reviving with relatively little corruption and subsiding tribalism. The IMF expects Liberia, shattered by civil war from 1989 to 1996 and again from 1999 to 2003, to post economic growth of 13.3% this year. There is hope for Kenya too. After all, the majority of Kenyans chose not to join in the tribal violence. Many civil-society institutions are strong...