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...promised millions of dollars to chosen African heads of state—and has given a Harvard lecturer the power to influence the selection. Mo Ibrahim, a Sudanese cell phone entrepreneur based in the United Kingdom, recently announced plans to offer a $5 million award to a retired sub-Saharan African head of state who he determines has demonstrated good governance while in office and democratically ceded his position to his successor. That amount is the largest prize the world has seen yet, surpassing the $1.3 million of this year’s 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, according...
...only do people die,” says William R. Rodriguez, an assistant professor at the Harvard Medical School who has advised the World Health Organization on dealing with the disease in sub-Saharan Africa. “They spread it to their family members, and their family members...
...Harvard engineer named David A. Edwards plans to change that. In the process, he’ll also have to transform the way that new drugs move from the University’s laboratories to remote villages in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia...
...located another kindred spirit in Timothy Treadwell (Grizzly Man), who lived with wild bears for 12 summers and was mauled to death by them in the 13th. But whether Herzog is filming auctioneers, televangelists or Saharan herdsmen, he always finds the drama. Sometimes he invents it, staging scenes to underline some point. He finds the standard documentary form boring and banal--"the truth of accountants." What he deeply believes in is "poetic, ecstatic truth ... that can be reached only through fabrication and imagination and stylization...
...prize has guaranteed a lot of attention, the guts of his foundation's work is a new system to publicize the successes and failures of African leaders - the Ibrahim Index. Under the direction of Harvard Professor Robert Rotberg, it will set out objective measures of how the 48 sub-Saharan African countries are performing in many areas, from corruption to judicial independence to respect for human rights to the delivery of health and education...