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...them most--because you can't rebuild a strong economy without strong women." Raising funds through a church in the Washington area, Salbi founded Women for Women International later that year. The group has now served 153,000 women in countries such as the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Nigeria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Bosnia, Kosovo and Sudan. It has distributed more than $42 million in direct aid and loans. More than 246,000 women in 58 countries have signed up as donors, supporters and sponsors, who exchange more than 100,000 letters a year...
...back, smarter, more global and perhaps even profitable. With just 122 planes, 13,600 employees and about $5 billion in revenue last year, all the Virgin airlines put together--Branson's Virgin Group has stakes in Virgin Atlantic, Virgin America, V Australia and Virgin Blue in Australia and Virgin Nigeria--are a speck in the eye of the largest U.S. carrier, American, whose 655 planes generated $23 billion in sales...
...million when the company went public, although the stock has since declined. When he fails, he always has an exit strategy. "If it doesn't work, we'll bow out gracefully," he says of Virgin America, where his total investment is $72 million. He put $25 million into Virgin Nigeria, but problems with the Nigerian government contributed to $82 million in losses last year, considerably reducing the profits of Virgin Atlantic, which owns a 49% share. Branson says he may reduce his stake in that business, but he won't cut services at Virgin Atlantic to compensate, and the rest...
...state statute, The Falls Church, where George Washington was once a vestryman - and which gave its name to the surrounding community - is covered under a state definition that would allow its conservative congregation to take the property into a non-Episcopal group supervised by the conservative Anglican Archbishop of Nigeria. The same goes for ten other churches in Virginia. Their monetary value has been estimated at over $20 million, but their symbolic value is considerably greater. The most immediate part of the ruling by Judge Randy Bellows late Thursday night states that the evidence is "overwhelming" that the Episcopal Diocese...
...African governments have taken freedom of speech and fair elections more seriously recently. Most notably, President Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria was forced out last year when his term was up. At the same time, continent-wide reforms have improved governance. At the end of the last century, African rulers, led by Mbeki and South Africa, began to commit to the rule of law, human rights, and free and fair elections. The Organisation of African Unity, little more than a club for dictators, was reconstituted as the African Union, with aspirations to rule Africa better and a mandate to intervene...