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That portrait is real, all right, in places like Nigeria, Somalia, Burundi, Sudan, Kenya. But it is no longer the whole picture. Academics, diplomats and bankers who do business there talk seriously these days about an African renaissance. A grand word, it turns out, for the slow, fragile, difficult changes that are giving the continent a second chance. But the description fits. Out of sight of our narrow focus on disaster, another Africa is rising, an Africa that works: the Africa of Mozambique and Mali and Eritrea and Ghana, of South Africa and Uganda, Benin and Botswana, Ethiopia, Ivory Coast...
...Death of Somalia...
...Eldon was killed in a way more befitting another era: he and three other photojournalists were stoned to death by a mob in Somalia after U.N. forces attacked an alleged stronghold of General Mohammed Farrah Aidid's. Although he died young, Eldon left a startling record of his life: 17 journals full of collages, layers of photographs, clippings, writings and other scraps. Eldon had grown up in Kenya, led a relief mission to Mozambique, worked in New York City as a graphic designer, traveled extensively, written a book and started his own photography business. Now his mother Kathy Eldon...
...brink of starvation and South Korea's government being reshuffled, today's peace talks between the two Koreas couldn't come at a more critical time. United Nations relief teams report that North Korea's drought threatens a deadly famine on the scale seen recently in Ethiopia and Somalia. Meanwhile, South Korea's president today ousted half his cabinet, explaining the move as an effort to better manage economic policies and ensure fair presidential elections in December. Breakthroughs are not expected as North and South Korea sit down with China and the U.S. for talks, at Columbia University...
...brink of starvation and South Korea's government being reshuffled, today's peace talks between the two Koreas couldn't come at a more critical time. United Nations relief teams report that North Korea's drought threatens a deadly famine on the scale seen recently in Ethiopia and Somalia. Meanwhile, South Korea's president today ousted half his cabinet, explaining the move as an effort to better manage economic policies and ensure fair presidential elections in December. Breakthroughs are not expected as North and South Korea sit down with China and the U.S. for talks, at Columbia University...