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Secretary Boutros Boutros-Ghali complained about the attention the Balkan war was receiving in contrast with the Somalian famine, calling it a "rich man's war." While Boutros-Ghali's rage at the lack of action on Somalia is understandable, his statement is reprehensible. As Secretary General, his job is tolead and marshal support for U.N. efforts, not to diminish one tragedy in the face of another. At a time when inspiring leadership is needed at the U.N., Boutros-Ghali has sunk to the level of ridiculous name-calling...
...Somalian woman who gave this account was describing a rite undergone by more than 80 million African women. Female circumcision -- the mutilation of the external genital organs -- is a centuries-old rite of passage, intended to ensure that young women become desirable wives. It frequently causes life- threatening blood loss and infection. It can also lead to painful intercourse, infertility and difficult childbirth. While often erroneously linked to Islamic scripture, it is not mandated by any religion and is practiced by people of many faiths in some two dozen black African nations, Egypt and the Sudan...
...arrested in 1984 on suspicion of harboring guerrillas from the Eritrean People's Liberation Front and was packed off to a prison in Addis Ababa. Tortured repeatedly over the next four years, Ahmed was finally moved to a hospital. From there, he escaped to Djibouti, where he purchased a Somalian passport and a ticket to Canada...
...office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees in London of Ahmed's plight. Ahmed was soon assured by UNHCR that he would receive assistance in Cairo, so he flew back to Egypt. But when the Egyptians tried to send him to Somalia, Ahmed kicked and screamed. The Somalian Ambassador was called in, and he acknowledged that Ahmed would be imprisoned if he landed in Somalia. So the Ethiopian was returned to Cyprus...
...Somalia has still managed to export tusks from an estimated 13,800 elephants in the past three years, evidence that the country has been providing false documents for ivory poached elsewhere. In response, the U.S. is expected this week to announce a ban on imports of Somalian ivory...