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...Clinton's star-studded conference, following his personal invitation with that phone call, Mrs. Bush will announce a public-private partnership that will fund equipment to help bring clean water to Africa, starting in the sub-Sahara and then expanding to other regions. She and a group of women entrepreneurs rang the closing bell at the stock exchange, which she said was "really fun." Back in Washington, McCain and the International Republican Institute will salute her as an advocate of freedom for her work promoting education and literacy...
...conflicting visions and divided loyalties that shape Zidane's Europe were on display in the World Cup Final long before the notorious head-butt. For France, all but four of the 14 players used in the game were children or grandchildren of Africa, from both sides of the Sahara. Italy's lineup, by contrast, had no players of immigrant origin (although Mauro Camoranesi's grandparents had left Italy for Argentina) - the Azzuri were, to put it bluntly, the whitest of the Western European teams at the World Cup. Italian soccer has long been a magnet for fascist nostalgia...
...WESTERN SAHARA, occupied by Morocco, should vote on nationhood, according to a U.N. plan brokered in 1991. But intractable disagreements between Morocco and independence-minded guerrillas have left the territory in limbo...
...retired U.N. and World Bank consultant who has worked in Egypt and Ethiopia, I found your story on the increasing cooperation between Egypt and its southern neighbors extremely interesting. You reported that Ethiopia's Prime Minister, Meles Zenawi, said, "While Egypt is taking the Nile water to transform the Sahara into something green, we in Ethiopia - which is the source of 85% of that water - are denied the possibility of using it to feed ourselves." But Ethiopia has several major river basins besides the Blue Nile, as well as fertile land, and if it were to exploit those resources...
...Sudan - whose capital is built where the Blue Nile meets the White - have stifled development along the upper river for decades. Dam and irrigation projects have been blocked. That, say regional leaders, has kept millions of people poor. "While Egypt is taking the Nile water to transform the Sahara into something green, we in Ethiopia - which is the source of 85% of that water - are denied the possibility of using it to feed ourselves. And we are being forced to beg for food every year," Ethiopia's Prime Minister Meles Zenawi told the bbc last year. The imbalance is shocking...