Word: regionalization
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...bank has invested in over 300 projects in Africa, from low-cost housing to schools to mining ventures. Li, a key player in the blossoming romance between China and Africa, said he's visited more than 20 African nations in the past year alone. Others are eyeing the region more intently, too. A panel of moneymen from companies like JP Morgan and Barclays Capital spoke of mounting enthusiasm among foreign investors for leveraged buyouts of African firms, prompting bullish talk that Africa may be private equity's "next frontier...
Choosing Darfur as his first major initiative was perhaps inevitable for Kouchner, who remains at heart a humanitarian activist. Although his Darfur summit failed to soften China, which resolutely opposes sanctions on Sudan, or to settle which foreign troops would be sent there, the tragedy in that region had clearly been given top priority by France, thanks in large part to its new Foreign Minister. In Khartoum, even Bashir - not known for his humor - appeared charmed by his French visitor. Like many African leaders, Bashir has known Kouchner for decades, since the Frenchman's days at MSF. In an anteroom...
...didn't know where their water came from. Most of us simply think of the Highland Lakes as a recreational resource. But the necklace of man-made lakes that control the Colorado River were built in the 1930s to harness deadly floodwaters and provide water and electricity to the region...
...Today's decision was remarkably close. It came in the cases of two public school districts - one in Seattle and the other in a region of Kentucky including Louisville - that considered students' race as just one factor in deciding where they should go to school. Both districts wanted to maintain integrated classrooms, and like hundreds of districts across the nation, they used race to periodically tweak the makeup of schools that were oversubscribed or racially out of whack in systems that otherwise let parents choose where their children attended class...
...West Africans, having seen the sophistication of smugglers in their region, see little chance of Europe ending cocaine smuggling. "Even in the U.S. the government spends billions of dollars a year on the Coast Guard, but traffickers are always, always ahead of them," says Kouame of the U.N. narcotics control board. A local journalist in Bissau who has traveled to Europe illicitly with West African smugglers says boatmen in the region are adept at avoiding authorities, having spent decades smuggling people, goods, fuel and various drugs. At least some of those drugs ended up in the hands of the four...