Economist blames aid for Africa famine
Jul 30 2005 11:24PM (CT)
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) - In Niger, a desert country twice the size of Texas, most of the 11 million people live on a dollar a day. Forty percent of children are underfed, and one out of four dies before turning 5. And that's when things are normal. Throw in a plague of locusts, and a familiar spectacle emerges: skeletal babies, distended bellies, people too famished to brush the flies from their faces.
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Ugandans approve multiparty politics
Jul 30 2005 9:12PM (CT)
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) - Ugandans voted overwhelmingly in support of their country's return to a multiparty system, which was banned for 19 years by a president who argued that he needed to keep tribal divisions in check.
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Food arrives in remote part of Niger
Jul 30 2005 3:53PM (CT)
MARADI, Niger (AP) - Food by the truckload is finally reaching remote northern Niger, eight months after the first pleas for help for the hungry.
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