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Another reason for hope is the resilience of nature--if it is given a helping hand. Fifteen years ago, the forests outside Gombe National Park in Tanzania had been virtually eliminated. More people lived there than the land could support. J.G.I. initiated the Lake Tanganyika Catchment Reforestation and Education Project (TACARE), a program active in 33 villages around the park. Today people improve their lives through environmentally sustainable projects, such as tree nurseries and wood lots. We provide health care, family-planning and education programs, especially for women. As their education increases, their family size tends to drop...
...World Trade Center had been bombed for the first time; in 1996 19 American servicemen had been killed when the Khobar Towers, in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, was bombed; two years later, American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were attacked. As the millennium celebrations at the end of 1999 approached, the CIA warned that it expected five to 15 attacks against American targets over the New Year's weekend. But three times, the U.S. got lucky. The Jordanians broke up an al-Qaeda cell in Amman; Ahmed Ressam, an Algerian based in Montreal, panicked when stopped at a border crossing from...
...same area as the Escravos oil terminal that was occupied by unarmed women between July 8 and 18. That protest ended after the oil giant agreed to build schools and clinics, provide water and electricity service, set up farms and create jobs. BURUNDI Talks Abandoned Talks in Tanzania aimed at bringing peace to Burundi were abandoned by both the government and Hutu rebels. In the most serious fighting since a power-sharing agreement between Tutsi and Hutu began last November, the Burundi army said it had killed more than 200 Hutu rebels in two weeks. Most of the rebels were...
...destroyed Palestinian police headquarters in Hebron to try to dislodge militants from the compound. The army said that about 40 people were holed up inside, including 15 militants from the Tanzim, an armed group within Yasser Arafat's Fatah faction. About 150 others surrendered during breaks in the bombardment. TANZANIA Train Tragedy At least 281 people died and 800 were injured after a passenger train collided with a freight train in Igandu, in the central Dodoma region about 400 km west of the country's largest city, Dar es Salaam. Witnesses said the passenger train was climbing a hill when...
...process will apply only to civilians who partook in the terror. The masterminds will be tried in a U.N.-sponsored International Criminal Tribunal in neighboring Tanzania...