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Bishop V. Gene Robinson of the Episcopal Church USA and Bishop Martyn Minns of the Anglican Church of Nigeria are the twin bookends of the current struggle within the worldwide Anglican Communion. Fallen bookends, one might add, insofar as they are the only two Anglican bishops so far to be disinvited from the Communion's once-a-decade Lambeth Conference this July by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams...
...thousands of miles, in every sense, from Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas, but this improvised open-air arena in a remote town in southeastern Nigeria is where current WBC world heavyweight champion Samuel Peter first honed his jab. But while Peter may have moved on to fame and fortune, his hometown gym still lacks a ring. Its aspiring fighters share head-guards, gloves, even gum-guards, and the coach who discovered Peter still plods along in obscurity, living in a tiny one-bedroom shack behind a palm-wine bar. Indeed, Coach Ade Young knows better than most just how little...
...doing in Africa. The Togo-based company, with operations in 22 countries, has for years acted as a banker to microfinance groups, taking deposits and writing loans. Over that time, Ecobank has grown hip to the business model and last year launched a microfinance institution of its own, in Nigeria and then in Ghana. Senegal and Cameroon are next. "This empowers the bottom of the African market," says Ecobank microfinance head Rotimi Nihinlola, "and is a good opportunity to grow our business...
...high-risk. In Ghana, three-quarters of new HIV infections occur in the sex trade, according to the World Bank, but 99% of the HIV funding goes to general-population programs like microcredit schemes. The same pattern of ignoring high-risk, low-status people is found in countries like Nigeria, Cambodia and Thailand, says Pisani: "It's very strong to say it's deliberate neglect, but we are deliberately choosing not to do things that we know work well in reducing the spread of an infectious disease - because we don't like doing nice things for junkies...
With the third Ice Age movie coming soon, what's it like voicing an animated creature? Abdulnasir Imam ABUJA, NIGERIA...