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...still midmorning in Malawi when we arrive at a small village, Nthandire, about an hour outside of Lilongwe, the capital. We have come over dirt roads, passing women and children walking barefoot with water jugs, wood for fuel, and other bundles. The midmorning temperature is sweltering. In this subsistence maize-growing region of a poor, landlocked country in southern Africa, families cling to life on an unforgiving terrain. This year has been a lot more difficult than usual because the rains have failed. The crops are withering in the fields that we pass...
...front of her mud hut has 15 orphaned grandchildren. Her small farm plot, a little more than an acre in all, would be too small to feed her family even if the rains had been plentiful. The soil nutrients have been depleted so significantly in this part of Malawi that crop yields reach only about a half-ton per acre, about one-third of normal. This year, because of the drought, she will get almost nothing. She reaches into her apron and pulls out a handful of semi-rotten, bug-infested millet, which will be the basis for the gruel...
...plight of Malawi has been rightly described by Carol Bellamy, head of UNICEF, as the perfect storm of human deprivation, one that brings together climatic disaster, impoverishment, the AIDS pandemic and the long-standing burdens of malaria, schistosomiasis and other diseases. In the face of this horrific maelstrom, the world community has so far displayed a fair bit of hand-wringing and even some high-minded rhetoric, but precious little action. It is no good to lecture the dying that they should have done better with their lot in life. Rather it is our task to help them onto...
...Beijing of ousted Communist Party leader Zhao Ziyang, who died Jan. 17. After the ceremony, the official Xinhua News Agency released an obituary referring to Zhao's "serious mistakes" in dealing with the 1989 student protests. Zhao was deposed after opposing that summer's Tiananmen Square crackdown. MEANWHILE IN MALAWI... Justice on Wheels High court and supreme court judges ended a six-day strike after accepting a government offer to replace their aging Toyota Corollas with a fleet of new four-wheel-drive vehicles. The judges, who complained that their old cars needed constant maintenance, had originally demanded Mercedes...
...deported several people linked to al-Qaeda just days before the April 14 national elections. Terrorism experts were at a loss as to why al-Qaeda would want to strike South Africa, which has fiercely criticized U.S. policy and is a strong supporter of a Palestinian state. Contested Polls MALAWI Opposition parties filed legal challenges to the presidential elections after United Democratic Front leader Bingu wa Mutharika was declared the winner. A New Suspect PAKISTAN Security officials said that an al-Qaeda-linked militant thought to have helped organize the kidnapping and murder of U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl masterminded...