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...He’s like a rock star in Mali,” said Monson, who has focused much of her work on jazz music...
...high plains of Qinghai province, where a massive earthquake killed hundreds on Wednesday, there was a grim realization that if not for the changing of the season, the devastation could have been much worse. In recent weeks many of the migrant herders in the region moved from their winter grounds, where they live in mud-brick houses, to summer pastures, where they live in tents, making it more likely they would survive the 7.1-magnitude quake. "Most have moved out of winter herding areas, so they won't be greatly impacted," says Marc Foggin, chief representative of Plateau Perspectives...
...trip to South America to oversee the emergency response. Premier Wen Jiabao flew to Qinghai on Thursday afternoon. "This is an extraordinary disaster," he told a crowd in Jiegu through a bullhorn as he stood by a pile of rubble. "The government and the State Council are very much concerned about the people here of all ethnic groups. Right now, our most important task is to save lives. More troops will be deployed. We will spare no effort as long as there is the faintest hope...
...alternative that appears to have persuaded Washington and much of the international community to support the questionable election is a return to war in Africa's largest country. Already, the crisis in Darfur has claimed some 300,000 lives, while 2 million have died in a half-century of civil war between Sudan's north and south. Those numbers may have persuaded the international community to subordinate democracy to the cause of peace, but a slew of opposition groups withdrew from the presidential election ahead of the poll - citing repression and the expectation of vote-rigging - leaving no serious challengers...
...fraught road. "Without this election, there is no way to go forward to the referendum and the culmination of the peace agreement," former U.S. President Jimmy Carter told TIME while monitoring the voting in South Sudan's capital, Juba. "I'm not predicting tragedy, but I don't have much doubt that if the entire CPA has to be abandoned, there will be conflicts re-emerging in this country...