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...State Department hinted the U.S. favored postponing the vote until a more meaningful contest could take place.) And while every aid project is asked whether the money is being well spent, in southern Sudan there is a scandal over it not being used at all. In 2005, the world set up a $526 million Southern Sudan Multi-Donor Trust Fund, administered by the World Bank, to pay for roads, running water, agriculture, health and education for the south's 8-9 million people. In February a high-level World Bank delegation spent two weeks in the south investigating...
...excited recently to announce that the Tony Blair Africa Governance Initiative will be working with President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf and the government of Liberia to improve the way government works and help build the capacity to secure the country's recovery. Already the Africa Governance Initiative, which I set up two years ago, works alongside President Paul Kagame of Rwanda and President Ernest Bai Koroma in Sierra Leone. They are examples of a new generation of pro-business, pro-reform African leaders, serious about rooting out corruption, protecting investors and leading more stable, better governed countries, convinced that a thriving...
From then on, the Bears rolled through two easy innings, putting two more runs on the board in the top of the ninth before heading to the bus with a record two games better. The squad returns to Cambridge tomorrow to complete the four-game set...
...last week’s Princeton Invitational, senior Greg Shuman and Pollak set the pace for the Crimson, by shooting a 215 and 218, respectively. But this week, the duo could not replicate its success...
That left the top three matches to play, with a 3-1 advantage for Harvard. But Yale was far from quitting, and fought each remaining match into the third set...