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...Vice President Haji Abdul Qadir earlier this month. SOUTHERN AFRICA Adding More to Africa's Woes: Famine Two years of drought, flooding, political instability and incompetence have caused food shortages affecting as many as 15 million people in six southern African countries. Worst hit are Malawi, Zimbabwe and Zambia, where rains fell at the wrong time and floods washed away crops. Internal strife has not helped. Angola is emerging from decades of civil war. Land seizures have disrupted the commercial farms that once made Zimbabwe Africa's breadbasket. And Malawi sold off its grain reserves last year. See Also...
...previous summer, Yasin, then a Weissman intern, worked in Zambia developing public health information systems. But it was the summer he spent with children in Albanian refugee camps, the summer after his first year at Harvard, that indirectly brought him grief over “American Jihad...
...weeks before. The bodies of at least 170 people have been found in mass graves. The rebels accused of the killings, the Congolese Rally for Democracy, deny the allegations, saying that only 39 people died after mutineers staged an uprising and that a few civilians were caught in crossfire. ZAMBIA Desperate Situation President Levy Mwanawasa appealed to the international community for help. With Zambia's current food crop capable of feeding less than two thirds of the population, he estimates that the country will run out of food by August. The U.N. warned that across southern Africa around 10 million...
...regional drought worsened. Launching an appeal for urgent international funding to avert a humanitarian crisis, the WFP said the number needing emergency relief in the region was expected to double in the next few months. The agency is already trying to feed 2.6 million people in Lesotho, Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe...
...been under authoritarian rule since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, have earned them three landslide election victories ? but also the ire of hard-liners, who have shut down around 50 liberal newspapers and jailed reformists on charges of "insulting" officials and Islam. Iran Special: The Islamic Republic in Transition ZAMBIA Election Doubts Levy Mwanawasa was sworn in as Zambia's new President despite serious concerns about the fairness of the election. The 10 parties opposed to Mwan-awasa's Movement for Multiparty Democracy alleged that ballot boxes had been stuffed and voters intimidated. Independent election monitors confirmed that they...