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Annan wants to visit slums of Zimbabwe
Jul 25 2005 5:07PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Monday he wants to go to Zimbabwe to see firsthand the effects of a much-condemned, government-led clearance of urban slums and insisted those made homeless must be given new homes.
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Hungry Nigerian villagers await aid
Jul 25 2005 2:46PM (CT)
DAN MALLAM, Niger (AP) - The thatched-roof huts where villagers store grain for the lean season are empty. The only meal of the day is acacia leaves boiled into a thick paste, eaten in the evening in hopes it will lull the children to sleep. After months of repeated pleas from the United Nations, international aid is starting to trickle into this West African nation ravaged by drought and locusts. But it has yet to reach villages like Dan Mallam, where the hungry can do little but wait for help
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