Word: tanzania
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...that eases the load on landlines, making them easier to use. (Unfortunately, the increasing popularity of the Internet is clogging the system up again). Patchy cell phone coverage should get better, but until the landline system is privatized, the service to average Kenyans won't improve much. Neighboring Tanzania and Uganda have both partially privatized their phone systems and seen big improvements. Sure, it's still a luxury to own a phone in east Africa - but if Kenya is to have any chance of boosting its economic growth, then getting through to a number across town needs to become automatic...
...conviction last week of four men in the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania set off hopes that the U.S. would step up its campaign to nab the bombings' mastermind, Osama bin Laden. But in the wake of the trial, a new U.S. counterterrorism tactic is on display: silence. Bush officials realize that bin Laden bashing has been counterproductive. The more the exiled Saudi millionaire is demonized by the U.S., the stronger he becomes to radicals around the world. Intelligence officials also feel that, despite a near 20% decline in anti-American terrorism incidents over the past decade...
...continued. Guilty verdicts on all 302 counts against the four defendants were handed down May 29, a major coup for White's office. Now the case enters the penalty phase. Two of those convicted, Mohamed Rashed Daoud Al-'Owhali, 24, of Saudi Arabia and Khalfan Khamis Mohamed, 27, of Tanzania, face the death penalty. The process calls for a mini-trial in which prosecutors and defense lawyers will put on witnesses for and against each man. Al-'Owhali's proceedings started Tuesday and are expected to run for roughly two weeks. Mohamed's sentencing phase will take another two weeks...
...best, a footnote in the chronicle of a long and bloody war in which the real measure of U.S. success is tragedies averted rather than perpetrators apprehended. After all, the man named in the indictment as the architect of the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania wasn't even in court, and the accused were at best mid-level operatives in his diffuse international network - and therefore easily replaced. In a warrior cult that holds martyrdom as its highest honor, being imprisoned - or even executed, as may be the case for two of the accused when...
...discovering," says Mabi Mulumba, professor of economics at the University of Kinshasa and a former Prime Minister under Mobutu. "Even the old guard know little about him." Kabila, who has a girlfriend and says he wants to marry soon and have a family, spent much of his childhood in Tanzania, where his father owned a bar and based the rebel movement that eventually took him to power. When the young Kabila became President in January, moving into the presidential palace, rumors flew that his mother was Rwandan or even that he had been adopted - stories he dismisses as "just...