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...British [an error occurred while processing this directive] Prime Minister Tony Blair's optimism, the world's focus was on Africa and the hope was that the continent was on the verge of turning itself around. But as the problems of Niger show, Africa's struggles did not miraculously vanish. Drought and food shortages, often exacerbated by government mismanagement, continue in Niger and its neighbors in the Horn of Africa and in parts of Southern Africa. Earlier this month James Morris, the head of the United Nations World Food Program (wfp), warned that more funding for food aid was needed...
Gore is well aware that much of the glow around him would vanish the moment he became a candidate. The irony of the current buzz is that words like passionate and authentic are being used to describe a man who showed three entirely different personalities in as many presidential debates and whose 2000 campaign is remembered mostly for the way it was homogenized and shrink-wrapped by a string of poll-addicted handlers...
...native Mexico, Hayek has worked to address the problem of women who vanish at the hands of murderers and rapists, said Diana C. Montoya-Fontalvo ’07, the president of Fuerza Latina...
...Teheran flirts with refusal, alleging that it would only perpetuate its dependency on foreign powers. Moreover, the IAEA has openly declared that some of Iran’s figures for fissile material stock simply do not match. Much like a 19th century classic novel, ghostly amounts of plutonium just vanish. The repeated efforts of the E3 (UK, France and Germany), known as “devils” in the Iranian propaganda circles, to cease Iranian fissile material enrichment has failed in several occasions. This has pushed Europe to a new stage position: referring Iran to the UN Security Council...
...operations turned violent. Today, the company?which has long maintained that pollution from its oil operations in the Delta is due largely to sabotage?is still struggling to regain the locals' trust. Shell has a new strategy. After seeing millions of dollars from its contributions to development funds vanish in the hands of corrupt officials, Shell last month signed a four-year contract with village leaders that puts $7.7 million at their direct disposal. There is no shortage of worthy causes. The region is plagued by malaria and AIDS, and does not have enough schools or health clinics. "We have...